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    [Noun]  | "bas*ti*na*do" | \ ˌba-stə-ˈnā-(ˌ)dō \


    1: a blow with a stick or cudgel

    2: a beating especially with a stick

    3: a punishment consisting of beating the soles of the feet with a stick


    Origin: 1572 ;

     Spanish bastonada, from bastón stick, from Late Latin bastum;

    [Verb]  | "bastinado" 


    1: to subject to repeated blows


    Origin: 1601 ;

    [Noun]  | "bastinado" 


    1: a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment;


      * e.g., " ... the guards savagely beat the prisoner's feet with a bastinado "



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     [ "bastinado" ]

    1: Spanish word for a sound beating of the soles of the feet.

      * e.g.,  ... Ay! Baastinado todos los dias Senor! Ayeeeeeeeeeee 

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