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Bastinado

noun
(pl. bastinadoes)
1.
A cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet.
2.
A form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels.  Synonym: falanga.





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"Bastinado" Quotes from Famous Books



... which he had been obliged to abandon. Some of these, finding him out of the reach of legal chastisement, employed certain useful instruments, such as may be found in all countries, to give him the bastinado; which, being repeated more than once, effectually stopt the current of ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
... Dicky under the person of Gomez, insulting the Colonel that was able to fright him out of his wits with a single frown? This Gomez, says he, flew upon him like a dragon, got him down, the Devil being strong in him, and gave him bastinado on bastinado, and buffet on buffet, which the poor Colonel, being prostrate, suffered with a most Christian patience. The improbability of the fact never fails to raise mirth in the audience; and one may venture to ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay


Words linked to "Bastinado" :   cudgel, beat, torture, torturing


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