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basti·nade

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  1. bastinadenoun

    A blow with a stick or cudgel.

  2. bastinadenoun

    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.

  3. Etymology: From bastonnade

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Bastinade, Bastinadonoun

    Etymology: bastonnade, Fr.

    But this courtesy was worse than a bastinado to Zelmane; so that again, with rageful eyes, she bad him defend himself. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

    And all those harsh and rugged sounds
    Of bastinados, cuts and wounds. Hudibras.

  2. To Bastinade, To Bastinadoverb

    To beat; to give the bastinado.

    Etymology: from the noun; bastonner, Fr.

    Nick seized the longer end of the cudgel, and with it began to bastinado old Lewis, who had slunk into a corner, waiting the event of the squabble. John Arbuthnot, History of J. Bull.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bastinadenoun

    see Bastinado, n

  2. Bastinadeverb

    to bastinado

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bastinade in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bastinade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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