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Meaning of stoccado | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A stab with a pointed weapon.

obsolete

Examples

“[William] Page. I haue heard the French-man hath good skill in his Rapier. / [Robert] Shal[low] Tut ſir: I could haue told you more: In theſe times you ſtand on diſtance: your Paſſes, Stoccado’s, and I knovv not vvhat: […]”

“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 […]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Stochastic stochastic calculus stochastic differential equation stochastic matrix stochastic parrot stochastic process