bastinado

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In every Arab village the sheik was a petty tyrant, who could bastinado the miserable fellahs at his will.

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For most offences the bastinado is inflicted, but for heinous crimes capital punishments are enforced.

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They took me before the Cadi, who ordered me to receive one hundred bastinadoes, and sent me to the galleys.

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Various forms of torture are practised, such as burning with hot irons, the bastinado, and squeezing the fingers in a vice.

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The Roman censors could expel a Senator for being drunk and take away his horse; Mahomet ordered drunkards to be bastinadoed with eighty blows.

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