Words Like BASTINADO
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to BASTINADO.
    
    
    
        
            2 Alternative Words Similar to bastinado
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        10 definitions of bastinado
           
        
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        A blow with a stick or cudgel.
    
    
    
 
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        To punish someone by beating someone on the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.
    
    
    
 
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        A blow or beating with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks; a cudgeling.
    
    
    
 
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        A mode of punishment in some Oriental countries, especially Turkey, Persia, and China, in which blows with a stick or lath of bamboo are inflicted on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
    
    
    
 
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        A stick or cudgel; the implement used in administering the bastinado.
    
    
    
 
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        To beat with a stick or cudgel; specifically, to beat on the buttocks or the soles of the feet, as a judicial punishment.
    
    
    
 
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        beat somebody on the soles of the feet
    
    
    
 
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        a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
    
    
    
 
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        a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels