Words Like BASTINADO

We have put together a list of words that are similar to BASTINADO.

2 Alternative Words Similar to bastinado

1 Cudgel Noun      Synonym Words Like Cudgel
2 Beat Verb      Synonym Words Like Beat

10 definitions of bastinado

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.
3 To punish someone by beating someone on the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.
4 A blow or beating with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks; a cudgeling.
5 A mode of punishment in some Oriental countries, especially Turkey, Persia, and China, in which blows with a stick or lath of bamboo are inflicted on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
6 A stick or cudgel; the implement used in administering the bastinado.
7 To beat with a stick or cudgel; specifically, to beat on the buttocks or the soles of the feet, as a judicial punishment.
8 beat somebody on the soles of the feet
9 a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
10 a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
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