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bastinado

noun as in cudgel

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Example Sentences

We had, also, to reckon with the new danger that bastinado floggings might persuade the Greek into betraying us.

He decreed the estate to the cousin, and consoled the other for his loss by inflicting the bastinado.

Signor me no signors, nor casa me no casas: but get you hence, or you are like to taste of the bastinado.

And we saw a Turkish soldier punished with the bastinado,—a sight which did not do me any good, and which made Smith very sick.

Will not that trumpery colonel make up his mind to start soon, if he is so ready to give the bastinado to poor folk?

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bastinado, such as: nightstick, truncheon, bat, billy, birch, and blackjack.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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