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Bastinado

noun, verb

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Noun

1
A blow with a cudgel or stick.
"[H]e is Sir / The moſt vnutterable covvard, that ere nature / Bleſt vvith hard ſhoulders, vvhich vvere only giuen him, / To the ruine of baſtinados."
2
a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels wordnet
3
Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.
4
a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet wordnet

Verb

1
To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon. transitive
2
beat somebody on the soles of the feet wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Spanish bastonada (compare French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).

Etymology 2

From Spanish bastonada (compare French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).

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