quarterstaff怎么读
音标：英 ['kwɔːtəstɑːf]
美['kwɔtəstæf]
quarterstaff是什么意思
- n. 铁头木棒（英国旧时的一种武器，长六英尺至八英尺）
quarterstaff的词态变化
复数: quarterstaves;
英文词源
- quarterstaff (n.)
- also quarter-staff, 1540s (quarter-stroke "stroke with a quarterstaff" is attested from early 15c.), stout pole, six to eight feet long (six-and-a-half sometimes is given as the standard length), tipped with iron, formerly a weapon used by the English peasantry. From staff (n.); the quarter is of uncertain signification. According to one theory, favored by fencing manuals, etc., it likely is in reference to operation of the weapon:
It was grasped by one hand in the middle, and by the other between the middle and the end. In the attack the latter hand shifted from one quarter of the staff to the other, giving the weapon a rapid circular motion, which brought the ends on the adversary at unexpected points. [Century Dictionary]
Linguists tend to prefer an explanation from woodcutting, perhaps a reference to a cut of lumber known as a quarter, but contemporary evidence is wanting for either conjecture.
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