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Bastinadoing

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.

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bastinadoing

vb. (present participle of bastinado English)

Usage examples of "bastinadoing".

He now remained on the ground till all the rest were out of sight, when,—as if to make sure of finishing what little remains of life the others, in their compunction, might have left in the victims, so as to give them, if they were not quite killed by the terrible bastinadoing they had received, a chance to revive and crawl off,—he ran up, and began to belabor them with the greatest fury over the head.

Generally a man is never more uselessly employed than when he is at this trick of bastinadoing asses' hide.