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noun
- A blow with a stick or cudgel.
- 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 (bastinados, bastinadoing, bastinadoed)
- To punish someone by beating someone on the bare soles of the feet, usign a stick or truncheon.
Etymology: bastonada (confer French bastonnade), from baston a stick or staff.
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