bastinado

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These called off the little hounds with threats of the bastinado.

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He had heard how they bastinado men for small faults, and he had probably 159 seen it, too; for at the time of which I write he was a captive in Turkey.

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"May I die of the bastinado, if I ever felt any such thing!" said Lazaro, proudly.

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He will surely bastinado our comedian out of his laureate periwig.

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By them all the men stood in a guard, every one having a bastinado in his hand, made of reeds bound together.

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