estramacon

Example Sentences

• "Then to the pair, who speechless stood, he stretch'd A table-spread, bade each to hold an end, And with clear voice: "As we, the Church's arm, With this estramacon do smite in twain The texture of this fabric" (here he flash'd The blade between the two, cleaving the cloth), […]"
• "I tripped a hasty morrice[…]upon the dining table, now offering my sword [to the Duke of Buckingham], now recovering it, I made a blow at his nose—a sort of estramaçon—the dexterity of which consists in coming mighty near to the object you seem to aim at, yet not attaining it."
• "Dost think I could ride a horse and learn the tricks of Carricade and sly passata, Stramazon and bold stoccata, Maudritta to embrocata."
• "In general we know that early armor of this type was often tried out by the chopping cut (estramaçon) of a sword, and that a similar test was used throughout Europe down to the seventeenth century."
• "Colombino used his left arm as a buckler, and before the ruffian could disentangle his blade from the Captain's cloak, a swift estramacon came to sever the sinews of his sword-arm."
• "In speaking of head-pieces he states, on the same page, that the heavier kinds were proved with musket-shot, but the light varieties were only tested with "estramaçon" or sword-cut; and he adds that for armour to be good it must be beaten and worked cold and not hot."