Obs. [a. F. estoc, ad. It. stocco, prob. of Teut. origin: cf. STOCK sb.1]

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  1.  A thrusting sword. Also comb. stock-sword.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VII. xii. 59. Wyth round stok suerdis faucht thai in melle, Wyth poyntalis, or wyth stokkis Sabylyne.

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1536.  Bellenden, Cron. Scot., X. xvi. (1821), II. 176. Thay … had … stok swerdis, quhom na armour micht resist.

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a. 1572.  Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 777. A stog sweard.

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  2.  Fencing. A thrust with a pointed weapon.

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1598.  Shaks., Merry W., II. iii. 36. To see thee passe thy puncto, thy stock, thy reuerse, thy distance, thy montant.

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1602.  2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., I. ii. (1606), B 3. Here is a fellow Iudicio that carried the deadly stocke [MS. variant stockado] in his pen.

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1602.  Marston, Antonio’s Rev., I. iii. B 2. And if a horned diuell should burst forth, I would passe on him with a mortall stocke. Ibid. (1604), Malcontent, II. ii. C 4. The close stock, o mortall wench.

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