estoc

[ e-stok; French e-stawk ]

noun

, plural es·tocs [e-, stoks, e-, stawk].

1. a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.

Word History and Origins

Origin of estoc¹

1820–30; < Old French: literally, point (of a sword). See stock

Example Sentences

To make the track, Carucci tapped Philadelphia producer Estoc, whom they found on SoundCloud.

From Los Angeles Times

To make the track, Carucci tapped Philadelphia producer Estoc, whom they found on SoundCloud.

From Los Angeles Times

My favorites are Céleste Mogador, who became a countess, and Gisèle d’Estoc, a bisexual anarchist painter who famously had a bare-breasted sword fight with her female lover in a public park.

From New York Times

At L’estoc, founded to employ people with intellectual disabilities, you can peruse furniture made from salvaged shutters and doors while the sander whines in the adjoining workshop.

From New York Times

As Demon’s Souls to Dark Souls, the latter hasn’t prepared me for all the new challenges on tap here: the hollow soldiers with estoc and shield who assault in teams with brutally efficient and overlapping tactics, the Varangian sailors with devastating four-hit combos, the cyclopean all-reaching ogres whose immensity belies their ability to pancake me lighting-quick.

From Time

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