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Examples of bastinado in a Sentence
the guards savagely beat the prisoner's feet with a bastinado
Origin and Etymology of bastinado
Spanish bastonada, from bastón stick, from Late Latin bastum
First Known Use: 1572
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bastinado
verb
bas·ti·na·do
Definition of bastinado
bastinadoed
;bastinadoing
transitive verb
: to subject to repeated blows
1599
First Known Use of bastinado
1599
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