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bastinado

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9 lettersPart of speech noun, verbSorted aabdinostStarts with BEnds with O0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels

Word origin

From Spanish bastonada (compare French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).

Used in a sentence

  • [H]e is Sir / The moſt vnutterable covvard, that ere nature / Bleſt vvith hard ſhoulders, vvhich vvere only giuen him, / To the ruine of baſtinados.

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