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Definition of Stoccado
1. n. A stab; a thrust with a rapier.
Definition of Stoccado
1. Noun. (obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stoccado
1. a thrust with a rapier [n -DOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoccado
Literary usage of Stoccado
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Ital. stoccata, ' a foyne, a thrust, a stoccado given in fence ; ' Florio.
Formed as if from a fern. pp. of a verb staccare", which is made from the sb. ..."
2. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1853)
"... and there to erect a stoccado fort of the form and dimensions given him, and
to take posts there, and range the woods from that fort westward towards ..."
3. Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, John M. Buckalew, Sheldon Reynolds, Jay Gilfillan Weiser, George Dallas Albert (1896)
"... and there to erect a stoccado fort of the form and dimentions given him, and
to take posts there and range the woods from that fort westwards towards ..."
4. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"stoccado is an accommodated form, as if it were Spanish. ... —G. stock, a stock,
stump, &c. ; see stock, stoccado (above). Stick (3), a staff, twig; ..."
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