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Bastinado Common

Bastinado has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet

2

a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels

3

A blow with a stick or cudgel.

Verb
1

beat somebody on the soles of the feet

2

To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
cudgel torture beat
Rhyming Words
ado sado dado fado nado hado mado kado tado lado prado grado spado amado shado vlado morado dorado arcado dosado
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