Definition of "bastinado" [bas•ti•na•do]

• A beating with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet. (noun)
• A stick or cudgel. (noun)
• To subject to a beating; thrash. (verb-transitive)

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• "We passed through the town, headed by a body of Ferashes, or footmen, carrying long rods, emblems of their office of executioners when the bastinado is inflicted."
• "The legal instruments of summary punishment which hang on the wall of the Naam – Hoi judgment-hall consist of three boards with proper grooves for squeezing the fingers, and the bastinado, which is inflicted with bamboos of different weights."
• "The legal instruments of summary punishment which hang on the wall of the Naam-Hoi judgment-hall consist of three boards with proper grooves for squeezing the fingers, and the bastinado, which is inflicted with bamboos of different weights."