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Word: Bastinading
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century. Partly from bastinade + -ing
Definition:
The action or an act of beating or thrashing a person with a stick, cane, or similar weapon, especially on the soles of the feet; beating of this sort used as a form of corporal punishment or torture.
