bastinado
Americannoun
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bastinadoes
plural
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a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
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a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.
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a stick or cudgel.
verb (used with object)
noun
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punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
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a blow or beating with a stick
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a stick; cudgel
verb
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Etymology
Origin of bastinado
1570–80; earlier bastanado < Spanish bastonada ( bastón stick ( see baton) + -ada -ade 1 )
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The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
From Time Magazine Archive
They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
I need not say that the reality of Mr. Barker was a very terrible awakening, which contained no lineament of my purple dream, save the bastinado.
From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature by Various
But the ordinary public chastisement was the bastinado, a stroke or two on the palm with that almost obsolete weapon now, the ferule.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
But he did not want the bastinado again, and the pilaf pleasantly tickled his nostrils.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
Brother Northcutt turns out his masked inquisitors, and Nessie not being found, the bastinadoes of righteousness descend upon Abner when he returns to marry the girl.
From Time Magazine Archive
And further, he may regale us with tales of hair shirts and bastinadoes suffered by him in the Republic.
From Nonsenseorship by G. G. Putnam
As a reprisal for this disturbance, the Austrian Government, not content with executions and bastinadoes, decreed the sequestration of the lands of those Lombard emigrants who had become naturalised in Piedmont.
From Cavour by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Having no straps, the solid sole of the sandal flaps up and mildly bastinadoes the wearer every step that is taken.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The light trees bent beneath our charge and bastinadoed the wagon as it went over them.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
Al-Kirmani and other doctors prefer this as the more venerable custom, but in these days it is completely exploded, and the purist would probably be soundly bastinadoed by the eunuchs for attempting it.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Thinking that they might be related to the catchpole that was bastinadoed, we asked them the occasion of their grief.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
May I be bastinadoed if it hasn't been three months since my eyes beheld the last specimen!
From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Randall Parrish
To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
Generally a man is never more uselessly employed than when he is at this trick of bastinadoing asses' hide.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
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