VERB
- beat somebody on the soles of the feet
NOUN
- a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
- a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
How To Use bastinado In A Sentence
- They replied, “We tell thee naught save what we know;” but he was an angered with them and bastinadoed them. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- So lifting up the Cudgell, he gave him therewith halfe a score good bastinadoes, laying them on soundly, both on his armes and shoulders: and Egano feeling the smart of them, durst not speake one Worde, but fled away from him so fast as hee could, Anichino still following, and multiplying many other injurious speeches against him, with the Epithites of Strumpet, lustfull and insatiate The Decameron
- After having been so heartily kicked, flogged, and bastinadoed; after having been in an earthquake; having seen Doctor Pangloss once hanged, and very lately burned; after having been outraged by Candide
- True, he had simplified several knotty matters by bastinadoing and cutting off the heads of all concerned, but this left a multitude of matters which could not be disposed of in that summary fashion.
- We passed through the town, headed by a body of Ferashes, or footmen, carrying long rods, emblems of their office of executioners when the bastinado is inflicted. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
- R. noticed the fellow, and afterwards told the Bey, who instantly ordered him to receive two hundred bastinadoes, and to be put in chains; but, just as they had begun to whip him, R. went up and generously begged him off. Travels in Morocco
- One favourite method was the grisly bastinado: turning a slave upside down and beating the soles of their feet until raw.
- So they bastinadoed him and pinioned him; after which the Syndic and all the people of the jewel-market arose and set out for the palace, saying, “We have caught the thief.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The legal instruments of summary punishment which hang on the wall of the Naam-Hoi judgment-hall consist of three boards with proper grooves for squeezing the fingers, and the bastinado, which is inflicted with bamboos of different weights. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
- So they bastinadoed him, till he could no longer groan, and cast him among the prisoners. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night