bastinado

[ bas-tuh-ney-doh, -nah-doh ]
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noun,plural bas·ti·na·does.
  1. a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.

  2. a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.

  1. a stick or cudgel.

verb (used with object),bas·ti·na·doed, bas·ti·na·do·ing.
  1. to beat with a stick, cane, etc., especially on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.

Origin of bastinado

1
1570–80; earlier bastanado<Spanish bastonada (bastón stick (see baton) + -ada-ade1)

Other words from bastinado

  • un·bas·ti·na·doed, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for bastinado

bastinado

/ (ˌbæstɪˈneɪdəʊ) /


nounplural -does
  1. punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick

  2. a blow or beating with a stick

  1. a stick; cudgel

verb-does, -doing or -doed (tr)
  1. to beat (a person) on the soles of the feet

Origin of bastinado

1
C16: from Spanish bastonada, from baston stick, from Late Latin bastum see baton

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