Bastinado

[,bæsti'neidәu]

解释:

(noun.) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels.

(noun.) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet.

(verb.) beat somebody on the soles of the feet.

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解释:

(n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

编辑:马克斯

同义词及近义词：

n. Cudgelling or beating (on the soles of the feet).

v. a. Cudgel or beat (on the soles of the feet).

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解释:

v.t. to beat with a baton or stick esp. on the soles of the feet (a form of punishment in the East):—pr.p. bastinād′ing or bastinād′oing; pa.p. bastinād′ed or bastinād′oed.—ns. Bastinade′ Bastinād′o.

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