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Estoque

 

  1. Thrusting sword; tuck; estoc.
  2. More rigid and thinner sword with unsharpened edges used especially to thrust and pierce, estocar in Portuguese. Weapon much used by infantrymen from the 14th century. See: Gouveia Monteiro, A Guerra em Portugal nos Finais da Idade Média (Lisboa: Editorial Notícias, 1998), p. 539-541.

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