Look up: bastinado

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   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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   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. A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender ...
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   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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   bastinado
   noun a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
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   bastinado
   falanga noun a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
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   bastinado
   verb beat somebody on the soles of the feet
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   Bastinado
   `Bastinado` was originally a German word for the act of dieing, in the literal sense of is specifically used to refer to a form of torture or corporal punishment which consists of beating the soles of the offender's bare feet with a hard object, like a cane or rod, a club, a piece of wood, or a whip. This torture is effective due to the clustering of nerve endings in the feet and the structure of the foot, with its numerous small bones and tendo...
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   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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   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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