bastonade

English

Etymology

From baston, early spelling of baton + -ade.

Verb

bastonade (third-person singular simple present bastonades, present participle bastonading, simple past and past participle bastonaded)

1. (archaic) To beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.
   • 1851, Theodore Dwight, The Roman Republic of 1849:

     A lady, injured by an Austrian soldier, reproached him, and was bastonaded. Repeating her reproaches while under the bastonado, she was bastonaded more.

Translations

Translations

• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see bastonada (pl) f (a noun)

References

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Bastonade”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.

Venetian

Noun

bastonade

1. plural of bastonada