The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
A blow with a stick or cudgel.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of bastinado English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: bastinado)
WordNet
See bastinado
n. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
v. beat somebody on the soles of the feet
[also: bastinadoes (pl)]
Usage examples of "bastinadoes".
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 had just filled my skin at the river, when the officer came from this distributor of bastinadoes.
At last they settled that, as a commencement, I should receive five hundred bastinadoes on the soles of my feet.
My innocence was declared, and my two accusers had the five hundred bastinadoes shared between them.
Let the money be distributed among the poor, and let them each have fifty bastinadoes on the soles of the feet.
They stripped the flesh off my feet with their bastinadoes, starved me of food and drink, and brought me back again to the walls.