The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bastinade \Bas`ti*nade"\, n. See Bastinado, n.
Bastinade \Bas`ti*nade"\, v. t. To bastinado. [Archaic]
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A blow with a stick or cudgel. 2 A sound beating with a stick or cudgel, specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet. n. 1 A blow with a stick or cudgel. 2 A sound beating with a stick or cudgel, specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet. vb. To beat in this manner.
Usage examples of "bastinade".
He is sure to receive the bastinade, who forsakes his colours or quits his post.
Zingis, with the bastinade, and afterwards restored to honor and command.
After this was done, however, he received a bastinading that made me pity him, though he was such a wretch, and then he was confined in irons to be taken back to Cairo.
The bamboo still reigns in China, and the son of heaven bastinades, for the most trivial fault, the Mandarin, who in his turn bastinades the people.