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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Bastinado (0.00855 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Bastinado.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bastinado
bastinado
n : a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the
feet
v : beat somebody on the soles of the feet
[also:
bastinadoes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bastinado
Bastinado
\Bas`ti*na"do\, n.; pl.
Bastinadoes. [Sp. bastonada
(cf. F. bastonnade), fr. baston (cf. F. b[^a]ton) a stick or
staff. See
Baston.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
[1913 Webster]
2. 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.
[1913 Webster]
Bastinado
\Bas`ti*na"do\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Bastinadoed; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Bastinadoing.]
To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of
the feet.
[1913 Webster]
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