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Webster 1913 Edition
Bastinado
Basˊti-na′do
,Noun.
pl.
Bastinadoes
. 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.
Basˊti-na′do
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bastinadoed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bastinadoing
.] To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.