Look up: bastinado

1. bastinado
   [n] - a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet 2. [v] - beat somebody on the soles of the feet
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2. Bastinado
   Bas`ti·na'do noun ; plural Bastinadoes [ Spanish bastonada (cf. French bastonnade ), from baston (cf. French bâton ) a stick or staff. See Baston .] 1. A blow with a stick or cudgel. 2.<...
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3. Bastinado
   Bas`ti·na'do transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bastinadoed ; present participle & verbal noun Bastinadoing .] To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
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4. bastinado
   noun a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
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5. bastinado
   falanga noun a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
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6. bastinado
   verb beat somebody on the soles of the feet
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7. Bastinado
   • (v. t.) To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet. • (n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel. • (n.) 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.
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8. bastinado
   (from the article `flogging`) ...with wire—the wires often being hooked and sharpened so that they tore the flesh—was even more painful and deadly. A particularly painful, though ...
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9. Bastinado
   Bastinado is a form of torture or punishment (often used in SM sex games) involving beating the soles of the feet. Originally, bastinado was employed as a method of corporal punishment, consisting of blows upon the soles of the feet, applied with a stick, in the Far East.
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