bastinado (n.)

  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

    [ Syn: falanga ]

    bastinado (v.)

  1. beat somebody on the soles of the feet

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