bastinado

How To Use bastinado In A Sentence

• He is a desperate character, and in other lands might be dangerous; but he is safe enough here, for the bastinado is a terrible instrument of torture, and the man is now not only desperate in wrath, but is sometimes desperately frightened. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
• “A troublesome, inquisitive old gentleman,” said Tyrrel to himself; “I remember him narrowly escaping the bastinado at Smyrna, for thrusting his advice on the Turkish cadi — and then I lie under a considerable obligation to him, giving him a sort of right to annoy me — Well, I must parry his impertinence as I can.” Saint Ronan's Well
• Before today, I did not know what figging, shibari, pegging or bastinado meant. Gizmodo
• They bastinadoed the criminal on the soles of the feet and on the buttocks.
• This done, Catchpole is rich for four months at least, as if bastinadoes were his real harvest; for the monk, levite, usurer, or lawyer will reward him roundly; and my gentleman must pay him such swingeing damages that his acres must bleed for it, and he be in danger of miserably rotting within a stone doublet, as if he had struck the king. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• The act of Bastinado, generally used to punish miscreants but also to elicit answers from torture victims, extends back through history hundreds of years.
• The bare feet are beautiful, elegant and feminine but bring to mind the bastinado, the terrible flogging of the feet.
• And, which is more, he would now and then make Alexander the Great mad, so enormously would he abuse him when he had not well patched his breeches; for he used to pay his skin with sound bastinadoes. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• The bastinadoes with which he had been treated were inflicted on his bare person, cold water being applied thereto, which made the punishment more severe. Travels in Morocco
• Apart from the bastinadoing other methods were employed, too, such as putting hot irons on the chest.