Bastinado Definition & Meaning
bastinado
- noun
- a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
- a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
- verb
- beat somebody on the soles of the feet
Words that rhyme with bastinado
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