bastinaded
/ˈbæstɪneɪdɪd/
noun
- A punishment or torture involving beating the soles of the feet.
- The bastinade was a common punishment in some medieval armies.
- He feared the bastinade more than any other form of discipline.
- The novel describes the protagonist suffering a brutal bastinade.
verb
- To beat someone on the soles of the feet as a form of punishment or torture.
- In ancient times, guards would bastinade prisoners to extract confessions.
- The cruel ruler ordered his soldiers to bastinade the thief in the public square.
- Historians describe how some empires used to bastinade disobedient slaves.