stoccado

English

Etymology

From Italian stoccata.

Noun

stoccado (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)

1. (obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , II.12:

     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 […].