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

1. noun. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
2. noun. 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.
3. transitive verb. To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
4. noun. a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels

   Synonyms: falanga

5. noun. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
6. verb. beat somebody on the soles of the feet

Synonyms

falanga

Common word forms

bastinadoed, bastinadoes, bastinadoing

Words from these letters

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