bastinado , also: bastinade

After their encounter with the bastinado they could, in any case, hardly stand.

There was not another sound in the neighbourhood but that of my unwearying bastinado.

The floor slapped his feet like some incredible bastinado.

Chloe gave herself a mental bastinado for having been so foolish as to call a man's attention to another girl.

A common tool was the bastinado, applied to the buttocks and thighs.

Now, in the Nixon era, people like Rubin are candidates for the bastinado.

Her feet showed no scars from the bastinado whipping that he had inflicted on her.

"He was bastinadoed lightly to make him talk (for a heavy bastinado killed), but the man sobered up quickly and said nothing."

He convicted him before a sheik and looked on while he was punished by the terrible bastinado.

"If he be in his senses, his impertinence demands the bastinado.

He was badly beaten with a bastinado.

However, the torture method of choice remained the traditional bastinado used to beat soles of the feet.

For the bastinado was the heaviest punishment that he could legally impose on such misdemeanants.

They propose no auto-da-fe, nor even a few turns on the bastinado for those who don't conform to the Orthodox view of the faith.

He is a Sultan who need not order the bastinado, so long as he can order the sack.

Bash me this unlucky rogue's neck and bastinado him soundly!"

And bastinado, the lashing of the soles, did not involve its victim being "hung by his wrists."

Republicans see him as a Democratic Presidential candidate and, therefore, a man to be put to the rack and bastinado.

When the Jews complained to the governor, he ordered the complainants subjected to four to five hundred blows of the bastinado.

'The garrison commander was asking them questions-using a bastinado.'

If he corrects her with the bastinado or locks her up, he is good for six months in jail.

Hajibu'd Dawlih then strangled him with a bastinado.

Murder was punishable by death, and the penalty for bodily injuries was invariably the bastinado.

Whereupon the Wazir stopped the bastinado and said, "Now speak thou sooth."