bastinado

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

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

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

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

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