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BASTINADO (bastinadoes)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bastinado mean?
• BASTINADO (noun)
The noun BASTINADO has 2 senses:
1. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
2. a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
Familiarity information: BASTINADO used as a noun is rare.
• BASTINADO (verb)
The verb BASTINADO has 1 sense:
1. beat somebody on the soles of the feet
Familiarity information: BASTINADO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bastinado" is a kind of...):
cudgel (a club that is used as a weapon)
Derivation:
bastinado (beat somebody on the soles of the feet)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
bastinado; falanga
Hypernyms ("bastinado" is a kind of...):
torture; torturing (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beat somebody on the soles of the feet
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "bastinado" is one way to...):
beat (hit repeatedly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
bastinado (a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet)
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