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bastinadoes

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bas⋅ti⋅na⋅do

  [bas-tuh-ney-doh, -nah-doh] noun, plural -does, verb, -doed, -do⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
2. a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.
3. a stick or cudgel.
–verb (used with object)
4. to beat with a stick, cane, etc., esp. on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
Origin:
1570–80; earlier bastanado < Sp bastonada (bastón stick (see baton ) + -ada -ade 1 )
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bas·ti·na·do   (bās'tə-nā'dō, -nä'-)   
n.   pl. bas·ti·na·does also bas·ti·nades

  1. A beating with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

  2. A stick or cudgel.

tr.v.   bas·ti·na·doed also bas·ti·nad·ed, bas·ti·na·do·ing also bas·ti·nad·ing, bas·ti·na·does also bas·ti·nades
To subject to a beating; thrash.

[Alteration of Spanish bastonada, from baston, stick, from Vulgar Latin *bastō, *bastōn-.]
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