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  • verb Present participle of bastinado.

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Examples

  • The Tickler always creeped the hell out of me, because I always envisioned him bastinadoing the victim's feet until they reached the edge of insanity or death.

    Casting clues and possible solutions 2009

  • This time my friend Loll Mahommed, who had received, as the reader may remember, such a bastinadoing for my sake, headed the attack.

    Burlesques 2006

  • The heart of the Pasha was touched: “I will have no more bastinadoing, O Skinflint Beg; you have tortured these poor people so much, and have got so little from them, that my Royal heart relents for the present, and I will have them suffer no farther.”

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • I declare, on my conscience, the master was in the act of bastinadoing a little mulatto boy; his feet were in a bar, and the brute was laying on with a cane; so we witnessed the howling of the poor boy, and the confusion of the brute who was administering the correction.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • In general, it may be said that bastinadoing in Tunis is a matter of form, many of the strokes ordered to be inflicted being never performed, and those given being so many taps or scratches.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • There are four capital punishments: beheading, hanging, strangling and bastinadoing to death.

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • Shîr Ali, holding this sort of language, gave me such an insight into the advantages of my situation that I could dream of nothing but bastinadoing, and getting money.

    The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier

  • Hanging and strangling are seldom used; and bastinadoing to death, is only inflicted when the crime is highly aggravated.

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • _ -- Jesus, Annas, Caiaphas, and four Jews striking and bastinadoing Christ.

    "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Anonymous 1902

  • Waiting seemed the only thing, waiting till I could fling my shoes at whom I would, and sit on my throne to behold the bastinadoing of Krak.

    The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898

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