bastinade

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BASTINA'DE BASTINA'DO, noun [See Baste.] A sound beating with a stick or cudgel; the blows given with a stick or staff. This name is given to a punishment in use among the Turks, of beating an offender on the soles of his feet. BASTINA'DE BASTINA'DO, verb transitive To beat with a stick or cudgel.
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