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Webster 1913 Edition
Stoccado
Stoc-ca′do
,Noun.
[F.
estocade
, fr. Sp. estocada
, or It. stoccata
, from Sp. estoque
, or It. stocco
, a rapier, fr. G. stock
a stick. See Stock
.] A stab; a thrust with a rapier.
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Stoccado
STOCCADE
, STOCCADO,Noun.
1.
A stab; a thrust with a rapier.2.
A fence or barrier made with stakes or posts planted in the earth; a slight fortification. [See Stockade.]Definition 2024
stoccado
stoccado
English
Noun
stoccado (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)
- (obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado [transl. coup d'espée] on their breast […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12: