baculine

[bak-yuh-lin, -lahyn]

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adjective

pertaining to the rod or its use in punishing: baculine discipline in the classroom.

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Origin of baculine

1700–10; < Latin bacul(um) walking stick, staff + -ine¹

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Baculine, bak′ū-līn, adj. pertaining to the stick or cane—in flogging.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
The baculine method was a quite common mode of argument in those days.
The Virginians
William Makepeace Thackeray