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Definition of Bastinado

Bastinado
Bastinado Bas`ti*na"do, n.; pl. Bastinadoes. [Sp. bastonada (cf. F. bastonnade), fr. baston (cf. F. b?ton) 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 on the soles of his feet.
Bastinado
Bastinado Bas`ti*na"do, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastinadoes; p. pr. & vb. n. Bastinadoing.] To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

Meaning of Bastinado from wikipedia

- Foot whipping, falanga/falaka or bastinado is a method of inflicting pain and humiliation by administering a beating on the soles of a person's bare feet...
- first gig at The Funnel in Dublin on 26 March 1998. Their debut album, Bastinado, was released in July 2000. Wexford native Derren Dempsey joined on guitar/backing...
- choice remained the traditional bastinado used to beat soles of the feet. The "primary goal" of those using the bastinados "was to locate arms caches, safe...
- flagellation (also called flogging or whipping), forced am****tions, caning, bastinado, birching, or strapping. Legal corporal punishment is forbidden in most...
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- areas of the body. For a moderated subform of flagellation, described as bastinado, the soles of a person's bare feet are used as a target for beating (see...
- mutilation punishments with progressively less-severe beatings by the bastinado. Acting as a judge in lawsuits was one of the many duties of the county...
- Press, 2008), p. 93. Polybius, Histories 6.37.9[dead link] (translated as bastinado). Phang, The Marriage of Roman Soldiers, pp. 280–285. Phang, The Marriage...
- Caning can also be applied to the soles of the feet (foot whipping or bastinado). The size and flexibility of the cane and the mode of application, as...
- caning, flagellation or bastinado rather than those other types of physical penalty. In some countries, foot whipping (bastinado) is still practiced on...