bastinado Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
  2. noun a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
    falanga.
  3. verb beat somebody on the soles of the feet

WordNet

Bas`ti*na"do noun
Etymology
Sp. bastonada (cf. F. bastonnade), fr. baston (cf. F. bton) a stick or staff. See Baston.
Wordforms
plural Bastinadoes
Definitions
  1. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
  2. A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
Bas`ti*na"do transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bastinadoes ; present participle & verbal noun Bastinadoing
Definitions
  1. To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

Webster 1913