bastinado

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noun

bas·​ti·​na·​do ˌba-stə-ˈnā-(ˌ)dō  -ˈnä- 

variants or bastinade

ˌba-stə-ˈnād 

-ˈnäd

plural bastinadoes or bastinades

1

: a blow with a stick or cudgel

2

a

: a beating especially with a stick

b

: a punishment consisting of beating the soles of the feet with a stick

3

: stick, cudgel

bastinado

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verb

bastinadoed; bastinadoing

transitive verb

: to subject to repeated blows

Synonyms

Noun

• bat
• baton
• billy
• billy club
• bludgeon
• cane
• club
• cudgel
• nightstick
• rod
• rung [Scottish]
• sap
• shillelagh
• shillalah
• staff
• truncheon
• waddy [Australian]

Examples of bastinado in a Sentence

Noun

the guards savagely beat the prisoner's feet with a bastinado

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Spanish bastonada, from bastón stick, from Late Latin bastum

First Known Use

Noun

1572, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1601, in the meaning defined above