bastinado

English

Alternative forms

• bastinade

Etymology

Spanish bastonada (confer French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

Noun

bastinado (plural 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.

Verb

bastinado (third-person singular simple present bastinadoes, present participle bastinadoing, simple past and past participle bastinadoed)

1. (transitive) To punish someone by beating someone on the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.

References

• bastinado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913