Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as bastinado.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See bastinado, n.
  • transitive verb Archaic To bastinado.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A blow with a stick or cudgel.
  • noun 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.
  • verb To beat in this manner.

Etymologies

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From French bastonnade

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