bastinade
bastinade noun: a blow with a stick or cudgel.
Noun
bastinade (plural bastinades)
- A blow with a stick or cudgel.
- 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.
- Rudely forced to drink tea, Massachusetts in anger
Spills the tea on John Bull—John falls on to bang her;
Massachusetts, enraged, calls her neighbors to aid
And give Master John a severe bastinade.
Now, good men of the law, pray who is in fault,
The one who begins or resists the assault?1775, Frank Moore, Diary of the American Revolution
- Rudely forced to drink tea, Massachusetts in anger
Verb
bastinade (third-person singular simple present bastinades, present participle bastinading, simple past and past participle bastinaded)
- To beat in this manner.
Forms of bastinade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bastinades |
| alternative form | bastinado |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bastinades |
| present participle | bastinading |
| past participle | bastinaded |
| past | bastinaded |
Origin of bastinade
From French bastonnade.
Questions about bastinade
- What does bastinade mean?
- Bastinade means a blow with a stick or cudgel.
- What part of speech is bastinade?
- Bastinade can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of bastinade?
- The plural of bastinade is bastinades.
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