bastinado

bastinado
1. noun
a) A blow with a stick or cudgel.
b) 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.
2. verb
To punish someone by beating someone on the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.

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  • bastinado — [bas΄tə näd′ō, bas΄tənā′dō] n. pl. bastinadoes [Sp bastonada < bastón, a stick] 1. a beating or blow with a stick, usually on the soles of the feet, esp. as a method of punishment 2. a rod, stick, or cudgel: Also bastinade [bas΄tənād′] vt.… …   English World dictionary

  • Bastinado — Bas ti*na do, n.; pl. {Bastinadoes}. [Sp. bastonada (cf. F. bastonnade), fr. baston (cf. F. b[^a]ton) a stick or staff. See {Baston}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A blow with a stick or cudgel. [1913 Webster] 2. A sound beating with a stick or cudgel.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bastinado — index beat (strike), cudgel, lash (strike) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • bastinado — (n.) 1570s, from Sp. bastonada a beating, cudgeling, from baston stick, from L.L. bastum (see BATON (Cf. baton)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Bastinado — Unter Bastonade oder Bastinado (franz. Bastonnade, auch ital. bastonata, „schlagen, prügeln“ bzw. baston/baton, „der Schlagstock“) versteht man eine uralte Prügelstrafe, insbesondere in nahöstlichen und fernöstlichen Ländern. Im Arabischen ist… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • bastinado — I. noun or bastinade (plural nadoes or nades) Etymology: Spanish bastonada, from bastón stick, from Late Latin bastum Date: 1572 1. a blow with a stick or cudgel 2. a. a beating especially with a stick b …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • bastinado — /bas teuh nay doh, nah doh/, n., pl. bastinadoes, v., bastinadoed, bastinadoing. n. 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 …   Universalium

  • Bastinado —    Beating, a mode of punishment common in the East. It is referred to by the rod of correction (Prov. 22:15), scourging (Lev. 19:20), chastising (Deut. 22:18). The number of blows could not exceed forty (Deut. 25:2, 3) …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • bastinado — v. blow or beat with a club; punish by beating on the soles of the feet with a stick n. blow, beating (on the buttocks or soles of the feet); stick, rod, cudgel …   English contemporary dictionary

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