Obs. Also 7 steccato, stecata. [ad. It. steccada, mod.It. steccata palisade, lists to fight in: see -ADO.]

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  1.  Lists to fight or joust in.

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1600.  O. E. [M. Sutcliffe], Repl. Libel, Ep. Ded. 9. It shall not be long, before I come into the steccato, and buckle with you againe. Ibid., I. vii. 184. A foolish challenger, that euen in the midst of danger conueieth himselfe out of the steccato.

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1617.  Minsheu, Ductor.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr.

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  2.  A palisade of stakes, stockade.

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1652.  Earl Monm., trans. Bentivoglio’s Hist. Relat., 29. He master’d the River of Schelde with his famous Stecata. Ibid. (1654), trans. Bentivoglio’s Warrs Flanders, 225. Divers rowes of great Piles of Trees … closed together overthwart with divers others…; they were called Steccadoes…. The Steccado of Callo advanced about 120 usual paces.

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