bastinado

English

Alternative forms

• bastinade
• bastonade

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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. 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

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

1. (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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.