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basti·nade
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bastinadenoun
A blow with a stick or cudgel.
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.
Etymology: From bastonnade
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.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
Bastinadenoun
see Bastinado, n
Bastinadeverb
to bastinado
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bastinade in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bastinade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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