bastinado

bastinado has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
• n.. 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.
• v. t.. To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
• n.. a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
• n.. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
• v.. beat somebody on the soles of the feet