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 )
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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
The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, we extend the meaning of drub, the Arabic word for bastinado, to a beating of any kind.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
Good heavens!" thought I, "I have suffered the bastinado and the bowstring, but both were merciful compared to this.
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Marryat, Frederick
He spared the delinquent the bastinado; but he gave him six months in prison, and condemned him in damages against the Grand Transasiatic Company.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Verne, Jules
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
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 Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
And further, he may regale us with tales of hair shirts and bastinadoes suffered by him in the Republic.
From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.
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 Stevens, Thomas
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he was the Hhaha Sheikh, and the Shedma Sheikh complained to the Governor of his man having been bastinadoed by the other Sheikh.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by Richardson, James
And one of these did openly tell me the Dey had forbidden any stranger to be carried out of the town, on pain of having his vessel confiscated and being bastinadoed to his last endurance.
From A Set of Rogues by Barrett, Frank
The Maghrabis, but for our interference, would have bastinadoed the Rais, who, they said with some reason, ought to have known better.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Had the friar ventured abroad, there would have been little doubt that he would have been well bastinadoed by the populace.
From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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 Lang, Andrew
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