▪ I. † steˈccado1 Obs.
Also 7 steccato, stecata.
[ad. It. steccada, mod.It. steccata palisade, lists to fight in: see -ado.]
1. Lists to fight or joust in.
| 1600 O. E. [M. Sutcliffe] Repl. Libel Ep. Ded. 9 It shall not be long, before I come into the steccato, and buckle with you againe. Ibid. i. vii. 184 A foolish challenger, that euen in the midst of danger conueieth himselfe out of the steccato. 1617 Minsheu Ductor. 1656 Blount Glossogr. |
2. A palisade of stakes, stockade.
| 1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Hist. Relat. 29 He master'd the River of Schelde with his famous Stecata. 1654 ― tr. Bentivoglio's Warrs Flanders 225 Divers rowes of great Piles of Trees..closed together overthwart with divers others..; they were called Steccadoes... The Steccado of Callo advanced about 120 usual paces. |
▪ II. † steˈccado2 Obs. rare—1.
[erron. form of stoccado.]
A thrust with a rapier.
| c 1600 Distracted Emp. iv. ii. in Bullen Old Pl. (1884) III. 233 Favorytts are not without their steccados, imbrocados and pun[to]-reversos. |