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Definition of bastinado in English: bastinadonounˌbastɪˈneɪdəʊˌbastɪˈnɑːdəʊ mass nounA form of punishment or torture that involved caning the soles of someone's feet. （打脚掌的）笞刑 Example sentencesExamples - The act of Bastinado, generally used to punish miscreants but also to elicit answers from torture victims, extends back through history hundreds of years.
- The bare feet are beautiful, elegant and feminine but bring to mind the bastinado, the terrible flogging of the feet.
- One favourite method was the grisly bastinado: turning a slave upside down and beating the soles of their feet until raw.
verbbastinadoes, bastinadoing, bastinadoedˌbastɪˈneɪdəʊˌbastɪˈnɑːdəʊ [with object]Punish or torture (someone) by caning the soles of their feet. （打脚掌的）笞刑 if she had been hurt he would have had the slave bastinadoed Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Apart from the bastinadoing other methods were employed, too, such as putting hot irons on the chest.
- For his part, the shah threatened him with execution, and once had him severely bastinadoed.
- There are four capital punishments: beheading, hanging, strangling and bastinadoing to death.
- If a person is severely bastinadoed they will be unable to place their weight upon the soles of their feet, forcing them to crawl, a position which will reinforce the domination of the performer of the bastinado over them.
OriginLate 16th century (denoting a blow with a stick): from Spanish bastonada, from bastón 'stick, cudgel', from late Latin bastum 'stick'. Rhymesaficionado, amontillado, avocado, Bardo, Barnardo, bravado, Colorado, desperado, Dorado, eldorado, incommunicado, Leonardo, Mikado, muscovado, Prado, renegado, Ricardo, stifado Definition of bastinado in US English: bastinadonoun historical A form of punishment or torture that involves caning the soles of someone's feet. （打脚掌的）笞刑 Example sentencesExamples - One favourite method was the grisly bastinado: turning a slave upside down and beating the soles of their feet until raw.
- The bare feet are beautiful, elegant and feminine but bring to mind the bastinado, the terrible flogging of the feet.
- The act of Bastinado, generally used to punish miscreants but also to elicit answers from torture victims, extends back through history hundreds of years.
verb [with object]usually be bastinadoedhistorical Punish or torture (someone) by caning the soles of the feet. （打脚掌的）笞刑 if she had been hurt he would have had the slave bastinadoed Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- If a person is severely bastinadoed they will be unable to place their weight upon the soles of their feet, forcing them to crawl, a position which will reinforce the domination of the performer of the bastinado over them.
- Apart from the bastinadoing other methods were employed, too, such as putting hot irons on the chest.
- There are four capital punishments: beheading, hanging, strangling and bastinadoing to death.
- For his part, the shah threatened him with execution, and once had him severely bastinadoed.
OriginLate 16th century (denoting a blow with a stick): from Spanish bastonada, from bastón ‘stick, cudgel’, from late Latin bastum ‘stick’. |