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Bastinado [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Bastinado [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

Bastinado Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

the punishment of beating with sticks. It is also called _tympanum_, [a drum,] because the patient was beaten like a drum. Upwards of a hundred blows were often inflicted, and sometimes the beating was unto death. St. Paul, Heb. xi, 35, says that some of the saints were _tortured_, τυμπανίζω, suffered the tympanum, that is, were stretched on an instrument of torture, and beaten to death.

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Bastinadoes [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Bastinadoes [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Bastinadoing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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