bastinado

American  

[bas-tuh-ney-doh, -nah-doh] / ˌbæs təˈneɪ doʊ, -ˈnɑ doʊ /

noun

plural

bastinadoes

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.

3. a stick or cudgel.

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verb (used with object)

bastinadoed, bastinadoing

1. to beat with a stick, cane, etc., especially on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.

bastinado British  

/ ˌbæstɪˈneɪdəʊ /

noun

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

2. a blow or beating with a stick

3. a stick; cudgel

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verb

1. to beat (a person) on the soles of the feet

Other Word Forms

• unbastinadoed adjective

Etymology

Origin of bastinado

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

Example Sentences

These called off the little hounds with threats of the bastinado.

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He had heard how they bastinado men for small faults, and he had probably 159 seen it, too; for at the time of which I write he was a captive in Turkey.

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"May I die of the bastinado, if I ever felt any such thing!" said Lazaro, proudly.

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He will surely bastinado our comedian out of his laureate periwig.

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By them all the men stood in a guard, every one having a bastinado in his hand, made of reeds bound together.

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Related Words

• nightstick
• truncheon