bastinades

Noun

bastinade (plural bastinades)

1. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
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.
   • 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

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