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bastinados

bastinados is the plural of bastinado.

Meaning of bastinado

Noun

bastinado (plural bastinadoes)

  1. A blow with a cudgel or stick.
    • [H]e is Sir / The moſt vnutterable covvard, that ere nature / Bleſt vvith hard ſhoulders, vvhich vvere only giuen him, / To the ruine of baſtinados.c. 1607–1621 (date written), [Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher; Philip Massinger], The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas...
  2. Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.

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Questions about bastinados

What is bastinados the plural of?
Bastinados is the plural of bastinado.

Words near bastinados in the dictionary

  1. bastinading
  2. bastinado
  3. bastinadoed
  4. bastinadoes
  5. bastinadoing
  6. bastinados
  7. basting
  8. basting up
  9. bastings
  10. Bastins
  11. bastion

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