• Stoccado

    Origin

    From Italian stoccata.

    Full definition of stoccado

    Noun

    stoccado

    (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)
    1. (obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
      • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado on their breast ...
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