A blow with a stick or cudgel.
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.
To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
A type of punishment involving beating of the feet
a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
beat somebody on the soles of the feet
to'ture by whup'in' on de soles uh de feet. Man
torture by beatin' on the soles of the feet.
The whipping of the soles of the feet.
form of torture or punishment involving beating the soles of the feet; these are very tender and should be handled with care.
impacting, beating or punishing the soles of the feet.
torture by beating on the soles of the feet.
Bastinado was originally a Spanish word for the act of caning, in the literal sense of beating with a stick or similar implement. It is specifically used to refer to a form of torture or corporal punishment which consists of beating the soles of the offender's bare feet with a hard object, like a cane or rod, a club, a piece of wood, or a whip.
