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Bastinado

Bastinado \Bas`ti*na"do\, n.; pl. Bastinadoes. [Sp. bastonada (cf. F. bastonnade), fr. baston (cf. F. b[^a]ton) a stick or staff. See Baston.]

  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.

Bastinado

Bastinado \Bas`ti*na"do\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastinadoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bastinadoing.] To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bastinado

1570s, from Spanish bastonada "a beating, cudgeling," from baston "stick," from Late Latin bastum (see baton).

Wiktionary
bastinado

n. 1 A blow with a stick or cudgel. 2 Beating the soles of the feet with a stick: a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. vb. (context transitive English) To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.

WordNet
bastinado
  1. n. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet

  2. v. beat somebody on the soles of the feet

  3. [also: bastinadoes (pl)]

Usage examples of "bastinado".

I remember once, in the confusion and hurry of baffling winds and whistling shot, having always turbans before the eye, and the bastinado in mind, to have beseeched St.

I recalled my early youth and the beatings given to students who were lazy or who wasted expensive paints, and the blows of the bastinado, which landed on the soles of their feet until they bled.

Another outburst in your English abuse and my slave has permission to use bastinado to quiet you.

At its head, two officers of the police proudly bore long, flat bamboo sticks for inflicting the bastinado to any unfortunate who incurred their wrath.

Delinquents contrived to purchase their escape from the bastinado by a sum of money, and French gallantry substituted with respect to females the birch for the cane.

My first act as Sheriff will be to install, on the courthouse lawn, a bastinado platform and a set of stocks -- in order to punish dishonest dope dealers in a proper public fashion.

There were a hundred of us or more, but the others either perished under the bastinado, or are to this day chained to an oar in the Imperial Ottoman galleys, where they are like to remain until they die under the lash, or until some Venetian or Genoese bullet finds its way into their wretched carcasses.

It is no disgrace, no more than for your adventurous reveller to fall by some inauspicious chance in his galliard, or for some subtile politic to undertake the bastinado, that the state might think worthily of him, and respect him as a man well beaten to the world.

Ay, and he thinks to carry it away with his manhood still where he comes: he brags he will give me the bastinado, as I hear.

The commonest is known as the bastinado, which consists of removing the shoes of the victim and whipping the soles of his feet with a bamboo stick.

Eastern vizier, who will empty his coffers to purchase them, and refill them by applying the bastinado to his subjects.

Here I fell into a minute or two of insensate ululation, for at the mention of the King of Goimr, the two policemen applying the bastinadoes had fallen into a truly vigorous beating of my feet.

I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.

Hamburg--A bridge two leagues long--Executions at Lubeck--Scarcity of provisions in Hamburg--Banishment of the inhabitants--Men bastinadoed and women whipped--Hospitality of the inhabitants of Altona.

We of the City of Oolb take our fashions from them of the City of Shagpat, and it is but yesterday that I bastinadoed a barber that strayed among us.