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Noun
                                                
                        
                            bastinado
                        
                                                
                    
                    Definition: a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
                                                
                        
                            bastinado
                        
                                                
                        
                            falanga
                        
                                                
                                                    
                
                    
                    Definition: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
Definition: A blow with a stick or cudgel.
Verb
                        
                        
                            bastinado
                        
                        
                        
                                    
                
                    
                    Definition: beat somebody on the soles of the feet
Definition: To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.