Obs. [Cf. OHG. stapaswert, MHG. stab-, stapswert, Du. stafsweerd (Kilian), etc.] A sword-stick.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 143/21. Dolones, stæfsweord.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, III. 178. With a staff suerd Boyd stekit him that tyde. Ibid., VI. 737. With a staff suerd off steill.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 543. Neither Aristotles … one shooe for both feet, nor Platoes staffe-sword.
