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Definitions of bastinado in various dictionaries:
noun - a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
noun - a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
verb - beat somebody on the soles of the feet
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| a form of punishment or torture that involved caning the soles of someone's feet. |
| A form of punishment or torture that involved caning the soles of someone's feet. |
| Punish or torture (someone) by caning the soles of their feet. |
| a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet |
| beat somebody on the soles of the feet |
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Foot whipping or bastinado is a method of corporal punishment which consists of hitting the bare soles of a person's feet. Unlike most types of flogging, this punishment was meant to be more painful than it was to cause actual injury to the victim. Blows were generally delivered with a light rod, knotted cord, or lash.The receiving person is required to be barefoot. The uncovered soles of the feet need to be placed in an exposed position. The beating is typically performed with an object in the type of a cane or switch. The strokes are usually aimed at the arches of the feet and repeated a certain number of times. * Bastinado is also referred to as foot (bottom) caning or sole caning, depending on the instrument in use. The particular Middle East method is called falaka or falanga, derived from the Greek term phalanx. The German term is Bastonade, deriving from the Italian noun bastonata (stroke with the use of a stick). In former times it was also referred to as Sohlenstreich (corr. str |