stoccado

Etymology

From Italian stoccata.

noun

  1. (obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
    Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado [translating coup d'espée] on their breast […]. , II.12

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