estoque-rapier: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is estoque? estoque is rapier

What is rapier?

  • m. Espada estrecha con la que solo se puede herir de punta: estoque del torero.

    m. Narrow sword with which you can only hurt on end: bullfighter's stock.

  • Arma blanca a modo de espada puntiaguda que suele llevarse metida en un bastón: desenvainar el estoque.

    Knife as a pointed sword that is usually carried in a staff: unsheath the stock.

  • bot. Planta herbácea de la familia iridáceas, con hojas radicales en forma de estoque y flores rojas en espiga terminal que se da espontáneamente en terrenos húmedos y se cultiva en los jardines: los estoques se conocen con el nombre de gladiolos.

    bot. Herbaceous plant of the Iridaceae family, with radical leaves in the form of a stock and red flowers in terminal spike that occurs spontaneously in humid soils and is grown in gardens: the stockings are known as gladiolus.

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