† stramazon Fencing. Obs.
Also 6–7 stramazone, 6, 9 -zoun, 7 -son, -zoon, stramison, 9 strama{cced}on.
[ad. It. stramazzone (also stramazzo) a knock-down blow, f. stramazzare to knock (a person) down, f. stramazzo straw mattress, straw strewn on the floor, f. strame:—L. strāmen straw. Some of the forms are influenced by F. estrama{cced}on: see estramazone.]
‘A vertical downward cut in rapier fence, which is delivered at the head with the part of the weapon close to the point’ (Hutton, Fixed Bayonets 1890, Gloss. s.v. Stramazzone It.).
| 1595 Saviolo's Practise i. F 2, He may giue him a slicing or cutting blow, which we call Stramazone. 1599 B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. iv, But I..made a kind of stramazoun, ran him vp to the hilts, through the doublet. 1603 Dekker Wonderf. Yeare D 4, He [Sickness] has his..Stramazones and Stoccataes at his fingers ends. 1637 Nabbes Microcosm. ii. i. C 2 b, Then have wee..our stramisons, passatas, carricadas, amazzas and incartatas. 1651 J. S. Prince of Priggs Revels i. 2 Drink deep my brave boyes of the Bastinado Of Stramazons, Tinctures [etc.]. a 1668 Davenant Man's the Master v. i. (1669) 67 D. Lewis. I have lost blood... D. Ferd. I'st by Stoccado, or Stramason? 1826 Scott Woodst. xix, But where is the rascal I killed?—I never made a fairer strama{cced}on in my life. |