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‖ puntilla|punˈtiʎa|
Also (erron.) puntillo.
[Sp., dim. of punto point.]
In bull-fighting, a dagger used to give the coup de grâce to the bull.
1838Q. Rev. LXI. 419 The butchers..are able infallibly to dart the ‘puntilla’ into the spine. 1924E. Hemingway In Our Time 23 One of the cuadrilla leaned out over his neck and killed him with the puntillo. 1932[see monosabio]. 1967McCormick & Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado i. 21 The death of the bull at the butcher's puntilla was incidental to the central ritual.
Hence puntillero |puntiˈʎero|, an assistant at a bullring who uses the puntilla.
1910Encycl. Brit. IV. 790/2 Should the bull need a coup de grâce, it is given by a chulo, named puntilléro, with a dagger which pierces the spinal marrow. 1923W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. x. 144 An indistinguished member of the quadrilla, dignified by the sonorous title of puntillero, knelt down and with a poignard gave him [sc. the bull] the coup de grâce. 1970A. Fowles Dupe Negative xi. 152 On his faraway face had been the look a bull has the instant the puntillero strikes home. |