stoccado (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)
(obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
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 […].
Source: Wiktionary
Stoc*ca"do, n. Etym: [F. estocade, fr. Sp. estocada, or It. stoccata, from Sp. estoque, or It. stocco, a rapier, fr. G. stock a stick. See Stock.]
Definition: A stab; a thrust with a rapier. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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