bastinado

• bastinade
• bastonade

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

• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

bastinado (plural bastinadoes)

1. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
2. Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick: 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.