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the Destreza Glossary
T - Tajo

Dictionary: Academia Autoridades (S-Z), 1739
Tajo. s.m. El corte, que se dá con algun instrumento. Lat. Seclio.

Tajo. En la Esgrima es el corte, que se dá con la espada, ù otra arma cortante, llevando el brazo desde la mano derecha à la izquierda: y se dice assi, à distincion del que llaman revés, que vá al contrario desde la izquierda à la derecha. Lat. Casio diagonalis. Sandov. Hist. de Carl. V. lib.6. S.2. Arrandcando la espada se fué à él, y de un tajo le cortó la cabeza. Quev. Mus.5. bail.I. “Fué respetado en Toledo / Francisco Lopez Lavada, / valiente de burgón, y tajos, / sin ángulos, ni Carranza.”

Tajo. In Fencing it is the cut, that one gives with the sword, or other cutting weapon, moving the arm from the right hand to the left [from the hand straight to the left]: and it is said thus, as a distinction from that which they call reverse, that goes to the contrary from the left to the right. Lat. Casio diagonalis. Sandov. Hist. de Carl. V. lib.6. S.2. Arrandcando the sword se fue to him, and with one tajo he cut off his head. Quev. Mus.5. bail.I. “He was respected in Toledo / Francisco Lopez Lavada, / valiant of burgón, and tajos, / without angles, nor Carranza.”