Definitionn. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
Last update: June 17, 2015
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Long terms of imprisonment and the bastinado, the latter even inflicted on women, were the penalties for the least expression of anti-Austrian opinion. [Please select]
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The light trees bent beneath our charge and bastinadoed the wagon as it went over them. [Please select]
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"If he be in his senses, his impertinence demands the bastinado." [Please select]
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"And then give them the bastinado every hour on the hour." [Please select]
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Moreover, taxation was heavy, and inability to satisfy the collector subjected the defaulter to the bastinado. [Please select]
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The bastinado of the magistrate and the schoolmaster's instrument of torture are both bamboos. [Please select]
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"Your clo'es will be tore off your back and you be bastinado."' [Please select]
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"If he be in his senses, his impertinence demands the bastinado; if mad, Lady Eleanore should be secured from further inconvenience by his confinement." [Please select]
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BELLO: (Savagely) The nosering, the pliers, the bastinado, the hanging hook, the knout I'll make you kiss while the flutes play like the Nubian slave of old.' [Please select]
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