Bastinado

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A beating with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
  • n. A stick or cudgel.
  • v. To subject to a beating; thrash.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
  • 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.
  • v. To punish someone by beating someone on the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
  • 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.
  • v. To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A blow or beating with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks; a cudgeling.
  • n. A mode of punishment in some Oriental countries, especially Turkey, Persia, and China, in which blows with a stick or lath of bamboo are inflicted on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
  • n. A stick or cudgel; the implement used in administering the bastinado.
  • To beat with a stick or cudgel; specifically, to beat on the buttocks or the soles of the feet, as a judicial punishment.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. beat somebody on the soles of the feet
  • n. a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
  • n. a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
    • Verb Form
    bastinadoed    bastinadoes    bastinadoing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beat    cudgel    torturing    torture   
    Variant
    bastinadoes   
    Form
    bastinadoed    bastinadoing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cudge   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    large-brained    knout    disinheritance    ambry    relegation   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.