Bastinade
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bastinade is a noun meaning A blow with a stick or cudgel.
Meaning
A blow with a stick or cudgel.
More Meanings
- To beat in this manner.
- 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.
Example Sentences
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?
Word Forms
- bastinades
- bastinado
- bastinading
- bastinaded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cudgelling, cudgeling, bace, fustigation, battering, stound.
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