estramacon
See also: estramaçon
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French
Noun
estramacon (plural estramacons)
- A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- A blow with the edge of a sword.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “estramacon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)