monopodio
(1) a captain of thieves (named for the character from miguel de cervantes’ novella _rinconete y cortedillo_);
(2) someone who uses unfair business practices to squeeze out a rival (17th century spain)
when burgos’s interests succeeded briefly in curbing bilbao’s partic-p-tion in wool export to bruges, outraged bilbaino merchants and shippers immediately labeled the action with the current epithet, monopodio. (from stein’s _silver, trade, and war_ p. 15)
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