Bastinado

[,bæsti'neidәu]

Definition

(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.

Inputed by Annie--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Checker: Max

Synonyms and Synonymous

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

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

Typed by Garrett

Definition

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.

Edited by Joanne