Estramacon

Quick meaning: Estramacon is a noun meaning A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Meaning

A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

More Meanings

1. A downward cutting blow with the edge of a sword or fencing weapon.

Example Sentences

Dost think I could ride a horse and learn the tricks of Carricade and sly passata, Stramazon and bold stoccata, Maudritta to embrocata.

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 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.

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.

Word Forms

• estramacons

Synonyms for estramacon

Depending on context, synonyms include stramazoun.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include estoc, montante, espadon, longsword, schiavone, two-hander.

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