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bastinado::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | cudgel |
bastinado::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | beat |
Examples of bastinado
bastinado
He ordered a bastinado for the culprits, a beating on the soles of their feet.
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A common tool was the bastinado, applied to the buttocks and thighs.
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The bastinado, though, besides causing the whole body to swell, created extreme mental anguish.
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Murder was punishable by death, and the penalty for bodily injuries was invariably the bastinado.
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After Steve died, I felt duty-bound to take up the Durbin beat, to seize the bastinado and go after the senator.
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A series of reforms abolished mutilation punishments with progressively less-severe beatings by the bastinado.
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When the Jews complained to the governor, he ordered the complainants subjected to four to five hundred blows of the bastinado.
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The women claimed that one of the Jews was Eliakim Stamboli, who was arrested, questioned, and subjected to five hundred blows of the bastinado.
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In addition, the Young Turks legalized the bastinado, or beating with a stick, even for misdemeanors, banned carrying rifles, and denied the existence of an Albanian nationality.
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- Beat somebody on the soles of the feet
- Foot whipping, variously known as bastinado, falanga (phalanga), and falaka (falaqa), is a form of corporal punishment whereby the soles of the feet are beaten with an such as a cane or rod, a club, a piece of wood, or a whip. ...
- A beating with a stick. The term is used figuratively meaning a tongue-lashing or slander.
- Mode of punishment in Oriental countries, esp. Mohammedan, by beating the feet
