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bastinado

[ bas-tuh-ney-doh, -nah-doh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural bas·ti·na·does.

a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.
a stick or cudgel.

, bas·ti·na·doed, bas·ti·na·do·ing.

to beat with a stick, cane, etc., especially on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.

bastinado

/ ˌbæstɪˈneɪdəʊ /

1570–80; earlier bastanado < Spanish bastonada ( bastón stick ( baton ) + -ada -ade ¹ )

C16: from Spanish bastonada , from baston stick, from Late Latin bastum see baton

We had, also, to reckon with the new danger that bastinado floggings might persuade the Greek into betraying us.

He decreed the estate to the cousin, and consoled the other for his loss by inflicting the bastinado.

Signor me no signors, nor casa me no casas: but get you hence, or you are like to taste of the bastinado.

And we saw a Turkish soldier punished with the bastinado,—a sight which did not do me any good, and which made Smith very sick.

Will not that trumpery colonel make up his mind to start soon, if he is so ready to give the bastinado to poor folk?

April 19, 2024tortuous

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