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bastonading

bastonading is the present participle and gerund of bastonade.

Meaning of bastonade

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

Questions about bastonading

What is bastonading the present participle and gerund of?
Bastonading is the present participle and gerund of bastonade.

Words near bastonading in the dictionary

  1. Bastogne
  2. baston
  3. bastonade
  4. bastonaded
  5. bastonades
  6. bastonading
  7. Bastone
  8. Bastones
  9. bastons
  10. bastos
  11. bastourma

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