Usually means: Beating soles of the feet.
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  1. bastinado: Merriam-Webster
  2. bastinado: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bastinado: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bastinado: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bastinado: Vocabulary.com
  6. bastinado: Wordnik
  7. bastinado: Wiktionary
  8. bastinado: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bastinado (bastinade): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bastinado: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bastinado, bastinado: Dictionary.com
  12. bastinado: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bastinado: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bastinado: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bastinado: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bastinado: Rhymezone
  17. Bastinado: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bastinado: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. bastinado: FreeDictionary.org
  20. bastinado: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bastinado: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Bastinado: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. bastinado: Legal dictionary

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  1. bastinado: A Word A Day

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  1. Bastinado: Easton Bible

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  1. bastinado: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bastinado)

noun:  A blow with a cudgel or stick.
noun:  Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.
verb:  (transitive) To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.

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