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▪ I. stoccado, n. Obs. exc. arch.|stɒˈkɑːdəʊ|
Forms: 6–7 stockado, stoccado, stoc(c)ata, (7 stookado), 6 stoccato, 7 stocado, stoc(c)ada, 9 arch. stoccata, stoccado, (stocado); 6–7 stackado, 7 stacado, 9 staccato; 8 stoccade (anglicized, rare).
[Corruptly a. It. stoccata, f. stocco point of sword, dagger. Cf. the corresponding Sp., Pg. estocada (which may be the source of some forms), and Fr. estocade (from Sp.); and cf. -ado 2.]
A thrust or stab with a pointed weapon.
1582J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. ii. xli. 123 [He] tooke hym by the coller and gaue him fiue stockadoes in the breast to haue slaine hym. 1595Saviolo Practise i. 10 Let him [the scholar]..thrust his Rapier vnder his teachers, and giue him a thrust or stoccata in the belly. 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. i. 234. 1603 [see mandritta]. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes 52, I have seen some of these Portugall Negres..play at Rapier and Dagger very skilfully, with their Stookados, their Imbrocados, and their Passes. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 156 Whom when they meet they must give him the Way with a Cringe and Civil Salute, for fear of a Stockado. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. iii, We behold two men..flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado. 1860G. J. Whyte-Melville Holmby House xv, [temp. c 1650] Your staccatos and passados, and cursed Italian tricks of fence.
fig. and in fig. context.1596Harington Metam. Ajax Prol. B 5 b, I..entred the lists with him & fighting after the old English maner without the stockados, (for to voine or strike below the girdle, we counted it base and too cowardly) after halfe a score downeright blowes, we grew to be friends. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. (1674) A 2 b, My Author..gives sometimes very home and sharp Stockadoes. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 403 Those injur'd Fathers..are doubtless the more sensible of such Mortal Stoccades, as coming from pretended filial Hands.
Hence † stoˈccado v. trans., to stab with a pointed weapon.
1676D'Urfey Madam Fickle v. ii, 'Twas well my Lord your Valor interpos'd betwixt me and the danger, by Heaven I had been stockado'd else.
▪ II. stoccado, -ata
var. ff. stockado Obs. |
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