Thesaurus: bastinado

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1. n. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
2. 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.
3. v. t. To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
4. n. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
5. n. a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
6. v. beat somebody on the soles of the feet
7. 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. To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
8. To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of thefeet.
9. n. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet n. a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels v. beat somebody on the soles of the feet