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Webster 1913 Edition
Bastinado
Basˊti-na′do
,Noun.
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.
Basˊti-na′do
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bastinadoed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bastinadoing
.] To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
Definition 2024
bastinado
bastinado
English
Alternative forms
- bastinade
- bastonade
Noun
bastinado (plural bastinadoes)
- A blow with a stick or cudgel.
- Beating the soles of the feet with a stick: a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries.
Verb
bastinado (third-person singular simple present bastinadoes, present participle bastinadoing, simple past and past participle bastinadoed)
- (transitive) To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.
References
- bastinado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913