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Bastinado n. : A blow with a stick or cudgel.

Bastinado n. : A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.

Bastinado v. t. : To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

Example:
you know the word Bastinado means beat sb on the soles of the feet, what is the word we can use for the hands?

Taxonomy
Foot whipping, punishment, bastinado, free encyclopedia, the Middle East, female students, corporal punishment in schools, falanga, falaka, soles of the feet, adults, ruler, agonising, blows, history, search, corporal punishment, implementation.

Defination from the web:
bastinado, falanga (phalanga), and falaka (falaqa), is a form of corporal punishment whereby the soles of the ... comedy As You Like It, Touchstone threatens William with the line: "I will deal in poison with thee, or in bastinado, or in steel... 

synonyms
  (noun) falanga
  (noun) cudgel
  (noun) torture
  (noun) torturing
  (verb) beat


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