bastinado
Contents
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- bastinade
- bastonade
Etymology[edit]
Spanish bastonada (confer French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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- Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ
Noun[edit]
bastinado (plural bastinadoes)
- A blow with a stick or cudgel.
- Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick: a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.
Verb[edit]
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[edit]
- bastinado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
