Meanings
plural bastinades · alternative bastinado
- 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.
Rudely forced to drink tea, Massachusetts in anger Spills the tea on John Bull—John falls on to bang her; Massachusetts, enraged, calls her neighbors to aid And give Master John a severe bastinade. Now, good men of the law, pray who is in fault, The one who begins or resists the assault?
1775, Frank Moore, Diary of the American Revolution
present singular third person bastinades · participle present bastinading · participle past bastinaded · past bastinaded · alternative bastinado
- To beat in this manner.
Origin
- Frenchbastonnade
- Englishbastinade
From French bastonnade.
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