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bastonade

bastonade verb: to beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.

Verb

bastonade (third-person singular simple present bastonades, present participle bastonading, simple past and past participle bastonaded)

  1. (archaic) To beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.
    • A lady, injured by an Austrian soldier, reproached him, and was bastonaded. Repeating her reproaches while under the bastonado, she was bastonaded more.1851, Theodore Dwight, The Roman Republic of 1849

Forms of bastonade

third-person singular presentbastonades
present participlebastonading
past participlebastonaded
pastbastonaded

Origin of bastonade

From baston, early spelling of baton + -ade.

Questions about bastonade

What does bastonade mean?
Bastonade means to beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.
What part of speech is bastonade?
Bastonade is a verb.
What is the past tense of bastonade?
The past tense of bastonade is bastonaded.

Words near bastonade in the dictionary

  1. bastnäsites
  2. basto
  3. bastocyst
  4. Bastogne
  5. baston
  6. bastonade
  7. bastonaded
  8. bastonades
  9. bastonading
  10. Bastone
  11. Bastones

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