bastinado
Americannoun
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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 )
Example Sentences
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They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
This steelyeyed, iron-jawed playboy of the Senate, this Voltaire-tongued bastinado of the uplifters, this Rabelais-reading Jeffersonian �this James A. Reed of Missouri�what a sizzling presidential campaign he would hammer out!
From Time Magazine Archive
The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
From Time Magazine Archive
These called off the little hounds with threats of the bastinado.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
The enormous iron dock groaned and clanged under the mad bastinado.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.
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