bastinado

• bastinade
• bastonade

From Spanish bastonada (compare French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).

• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

bastinado (plural bastinadoes)

1. A blow with a cudgel or stick.
   • c. 1607–1621, [Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher; Philip Massinger], The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1621, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:

     [H]e is Sir / The moſt vnutterable covvard, that ere nature / Bleſt vvith hard ſhoulders, vvhich vvere only giuen him, / To the ruine of baſtinados.

2. Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.

bastinado (third-person singular simple present bastinadoes, present participle bastinadoing, simple past and past participle bastinadoed)

1. (transitive) To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.

• bastinado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913