bastinade
Americannoun
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In Arabian, and some other Eastern, countries, it is a common custom, when a person is accused of a crime before a magistrate, and denies his guilt, to bastinade him, in order to induce him to confess; and even witnesses, sometimes, are treated in the same manner.
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There's fun in everything we meet; The greatest, worst, and best Existence is a merry treat, And every speech a jest: Be 't ours to watch the crowds that pass Where mirth's gay banner waves; To show fools through a quizzing glass, And bastinade the knaves.
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He is sure to receive the bastinade, who forsakes his colours or quits his post.
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Bastinade! thou doest wrong to all this worshipful company by so grievous a slur.
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"I have altered my mind, and he shall not be put to death," Sarema said, with a smile that made the traitor's blood run cold in his veins; "but give him a hundred blows with the bastinade, and I will stand by and count them."
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