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bastinado
[ bas-tuh-ney-doh, -nah-doh ]
noun
plural bastinadoes.
- a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
- a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.
- a stick or cudgel.
verb (used with object)
bastinadoed, bastinadoing.
- to beat with a stick, cane, etc., especially on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
bastinado
/ ˌæɪˈԱɪəʊ /
noun
- punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- a blow or beating with a stick
- a stick; cudgel
verb
- to beat (a person) on the soles of the feet
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲb·پ·ԲdDZ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bastinado1
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bastinado1
C16: from Spanish bastonada , from baston stick, from Late Latin bastum see baton
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In every Arab village the sheik was a petty tyrant, who could bastinado the miserable fellahs at his will.
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For most offences the bastinado is inflicted, but for heinous crimes capital punishments are enforced.
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They took me before the Cadi, who ordered me to receive one hundred bastinadoes, and sent me to the galleys.
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The bastinado is also most extensively used as a punishment.
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The Roman censors could expel a Senator for being drunk and take away his horse; Mahomet ordered drunkards to be bastinadoed with eighty blows.
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