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† stramazon Fencing. Obs. Also 6–7 stramazone, 6, 9 -zoun, 7 -son, -zoon, stramison, 9 stramaçon. [ad. It. stramazzone (also stramazzo) a knock-down blow, f. stramazzare to knock (a person) down, f. stramazzo straw mattress, straw strewn on the floor, f. strame:—L. strāmen straw. Some of the forms are influenced by F. estramaçon: see estramazone.] ‘A vertical downward cut in rapier fence, which is delivered at the head with the part of the weapon close to the point’ (Hutton, Fixed Bayonets 1890, Gloss. s.v. Stramazzone It.).
1595Saviolo's Practise i. F 2, He may giue him a slicing or cutting blow, which we call Stramazone. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. iv, But I..made a kind of stramazoun, ran him vp to the hilts, through the doublet. 1603Dekker Wonderf. Yeare D 4, He [Sickness] has his..Stramazones and Stoccataes at his fingers ends. 1637Nabbes Microcosm. ii. i. C 2 b, Then have wee..our stramisons, passatas, carricadas, amazzas and incartatas. 1651J. S. Prince of Priggs Revels i. 2 Drink deep my brave boyes of the Bastinado Of Stramazons, Tinctures [etc.]. a1668Davenant Man's the Master v. i. (1669) 67 D. Lewis. I have lost blood... D. Ferd. I'st by Stoccado, or Stramason? 1826Scott Woodst. xix, But where is the rascal I killed?—I never made a fairer stramaçon in my life. |