meaning of bastinado
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.
3. To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
4. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
Related Words
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