Obs. Also 7 imbrocado. [corrupt form of IMBROCCATA, as if Spanish: see -ADO.] A pass or thrust in fencing.
c. 1600[?]. Distracted Emp., IV. ii. in Bullen, Old Plays, III. 233. Favorytts are not without their steccados, imbrocados, and pun[to]-reversos.
1607. Dekker, Knt.’s Conjur. (1842), 16. Hee … taught him [Cayn] that embrocado by which he kild his brother.
1613. Wither, Abuses Stript & Whipt, I. v. E vj b. They are for nothing but the imbrocado.
