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stramazon

stramazon is the alternative form of stramazoun.

Meaning of stramazoun

Noun

stramazoun (plural stramazouns)

  1. (obsolete) A direct descending blow with the sword edge.
    • But I (being loth to take the deadly advauntage that lay before mee of his left ſide) made a kind of stramazoun, ran him vp to the hilts, through the Doublet, through the Shirt, and yet miſt the skin.1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii...
    Synonyms:
    estramacon

Forms of stramazon

pluralstramazons

Questions about stramazon

What is stramazon the alternative form of?
Stramazon is the alternative form of stramazoun.

Words near stramazon in the dictionary

  1. stram
  2. stramash
  3. stramashed
  4. stramashes
  5. stramashing
  6. stramazon
  7. stramazons
  8. stramazoun
  9. stramazouns
  10. strambang
  11. stramenopile

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