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Bastinado   Listen
noun
Bastinado  n.  (pl. bastinadoes)  
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.





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"Bastinado" Quotes from Famous Books



... bashaw, "let that unbelieving dog receive twenty strokes of the bastinado, on the soles ...
— Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks - Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series • Bracebridge Hemyng


Words linked to "Bastinado" :   torture, cudgel, beat, falanga, torturing


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