A club (also known as cudgel, baton, truncheon, night stick, sap and bludgeon) is among the simplest of all weapons. A club is essentially a short staff A staff is a large, thick stick or stick-shaped object used to help with walking, as a status symbol, as a component of traditional barrel making, or as a weapon. The plural form of staff was originally staves , and in British and International English this is still preferred. In American English the usual plural form has become staffs, except in, or stick, usually made of wood, and wielded as a weapon.
Typically, a club is small enough to be wielded in one hand. Clubs that need both hands to wield are called quarterstaffs A quarterstaff is a medieval English weapon, consisting of a shaft of hardwood, sometimes with metal-reinforced tips. The name is also used for the fighting staves of other cultures, such as the Japanese bō, Chinese gùn, or French bâton, Portuguese pau and Italian bastone in English. Various kinds of clubs are used in martial arts Martial arts or fighting arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. While they may be studied for various reasons, martial arts share a single objective: to physically defeat other persons and to defend oneself or others from physical threat. In addition, some martial arts are linked to beliefs such as Hinduism, and other specialized fields, including the law enforcement baton.
The wounds In medicine, a wound is a type of injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured , or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin inflicted by a club are generally known as bludgeoning or blunt-force trauma In medical terminology, blunt trauma, blunt injury, non-penetrating trauma or blunt force trauma refers to a type of physical trauma caused to a body part, either by impact, injury or physical attack; the latter usually being referred to as blunt force trauma. The term itself is used to refer to the precursory trauma, from which there is further injuries.
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