bastinado
- n a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
- n a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
- v beat somebody on the soles of the feet
- To force answers they used the dread Oriental bastinado, beat the soles of the Reds with thin strips of bamboo.
- They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
- The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.