bastinado

Meanings

Noun

• A blow with a stick or cudgel.
• Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick: a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.

Verb

• To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.

Origin

• From Spanish bastonada (confer French bastonnade), from baston.