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bastinado
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synonyms: baculine ???
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Definition:To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---n. The act of walking on wood without exertion.Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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I was merely a person who received the bastinado and underwent various punishments for a crime the nature of which I could not distinguish, though it was actually that of having taken too much port wine.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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as soon as Sonny heard the leader's demand he held the three men at gunpoint and had them thoroughly bastinadoed by the bodyguards.
Mario Puzo. The Godfather, p.224 (1969)
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