Dictionary Entry
bastinado
bastinado is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A blow with a stick or cudgel. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A blow with a stick or cudgel.
- 2noun
A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
- 3transitive verb
To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
- 4noun
a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
- 5noun
a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
- 6verb
beat somebody on the soles of the feet
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