stoccado

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8

Definition of stoccado

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)A stab with a pointed weapon.
    “[William] Page. I haue heard the French-man hath good skill in his Rapier. / [Robert] Shal[low] Tut ſir: I could haue told you more: In theſe times you ſtand on diſtance: your Paſſes, Stoccado’s, and I knovv not vvhat: […]”
    “Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado [translating coup d'espée] on their breast […]”

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Etymology

From Italian stoccata.

Hooks

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