"estramacon" meaning in English

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          "text": "Then to the pair, who speechless stood, he stretch'd\nA table-spread, bade each to hold an end,\nAnd with clear voice: \"As we, the Church's arm,\nWith this estramacon do smite in twain\nThe texture of this fabric\" (here he flash'd\nThe blade between the two, cleaving the cloth), […]",
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          "text": "I tripped a hasty morrice[…]upon the dining table, now offering my sword [to the Duke of Buckingham], now recovering it, I made a blow at his nose—a sort of estramaçon—the dexterity of which consists in coming mighty near to the object you seem to aim at, yet not attaining it.",
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          "ref": "1918, Adventure - Volume 17, Part 1, page 8:",
          "text": "Dost think I could ride a horse and learn the tricks of Carricade and sly passata, Stramazon and bold stoccata, Maudritta to embrocata.",
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          "ref": "1920, Bashford Dean, Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare, page 40:",
          "text": "In general we know that early armor of this type was often tried out by the chopping cut (estramaçon) of a sword, and that a similar test was used throughout Europe down to the seventeenth century.",
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          "ref": "1935, Rafael Sabatini, Chivalry:",
          "text": "Colombino used his left arm as a buckler, and before the ruffian could disentangle his blade from the Captain's cloak, a swift estramacon came to sever the sinews of his sword-arm.",
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          "ref": "2008, Charles John Ffoulkes, The Armourer and His Craft, page 70:",
          "text": "In speaking of head-pieces he states, on the same page, that the heavier kinds were proved with musket-shot, but the light varieties were only tested with \"estramaçon\" or sword-cut; and he adds that for armour to be good it must be beaten and worked cold and not hot.",
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