Synonyms for bastinado
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bas-tuh-ney-doh, -nah-doh |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌbæs təˈneɪ doʊ, -ˈnɑ doʊ |
Top 10 synonyms for bastinado Other synonyms for the word bastinado
Définition of bastinado
Origin :- 1570s, from Spanish bastonada "a beating, cudgeling," from baston "stick," from Late Latin bastum (see baton).
- As in cudgel : noun baton for hitting
- Get ye gone, or the bastinado and the bowstring shall be your portion.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- He condemned some to a bastinado, which was inflicted in his presence.
- Extract from : « An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa » by Abd Salam Shabeeny
- "Judge how much your bastinado can affect me," he said, with superb disdain.
- Extract from : « Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks » by Bracebridge Hemyng
- I did not live to bastinado Krak; nor would I now had I the power.
- Extract from : « The King's Mirror » by Anthony Hope
- The bastinado was inflicted on both sexes, as with the Jews.
- Extract from : « Museum of Antiquity » by L. W. Yaggy
- It may be so; but education is universal in China, and so is the bastinado.
- Extract from : « Kenelm Chillingly, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- He is a Sultan who need not order the bastinado, so long as he can order the sack.
- Extract from : « Utopia of Usurers and other Essays » by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- The ordinary punishment for minor offences is the cangue and the bastinado.
- Extract from : « China » by Sir Henry Arthur Blake
- A dozen strokes of the bastinado had been awarded for the first offence.
- Extract from : « Sarchedon » by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
- I wish you to arrest them and give each one hundred stripes with the bastinado.
- Extract from : « The Silent Readers » by William D. Lewis
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