What does stramazoun mean?
Stramazoun means (obsolete) A direct descending blow with the sword edge..
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/stɹɑ.ma.zuːn/ · noun
(obsolete) A direct descending blow with the sword edge..
But I (being loth to take the deadly advauntage that lay before mee of his left ſide) made a kind of stramazoun, ran him vp to the hilts, through the Doublet, through the Shirt, and yet miſt the skin.
Thy fincture, carricade, and sly passata, Thy stramazon, and resolute stoccata.
There were others that made it their glory to pass for Hectors, sons of Priam, brothers of the blade; and talked of nothing but attacks, combats, reverses, stramazons, stoccados;[…]
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Stramazoun means (obsolete) A direct descending blow with the sword edge..
Common synonyms include estramacon.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But I (being loth to take the deadly advauntage that lay before mee of his left ſide) made a kind of stramazoun, ran him vp to the hilts, through the Doublet, through the Shirt, and yet miſt the skin.
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