bastinado
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They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
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The tailor, who was deaf of one ear, understood that he was to have the bastinado, and fell a-weeping.
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine
By day Rachel and Miriam walked in the precincts of the monastery, hoping to catch sight of him; nearer than ninety cubits they durst not approach under pain of bastinado and exile.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
He will surely bastinado our comedian out of his laureate periwig.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
Brother Northcutt turns out his masked inquisitors, and Nessie not being found, the bastinadoes of righteousness descend upon Abner when he returns to marry the girl.
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And further, he may regale us with tales of hair shirts and bastinadoes suffered by him in the Republic.
From Nonsenseorship by G. G. Putnam
Having no straps, the solid sole of the sandal flaps up and mildly bastinadoes the wearer every step that is taken.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
As a reprisal for this disturbance, the Austrian Government, not content with executions and bastinadoes, decreed the sequestration of the lands of those Lombard emigrants who had become naturalised in Piedmont.
From Cavour by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
And so rotten is society,—so prostrate does it cower before the golden calf— that the buccaneer, instead of being bastinadoed or beheaded, is crowned with bays!
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
The light trees bent beneath our charge and bastinadoed the wagon as it went over them.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
And one of these did openly tell me the Dey had forbidden any stranger to be carried out of the town, on pain of having his vessel confiscated and being bastinadoed to his last endurance.
From A Set of Rogues by Frank Barrett
The Maghrabis, but for our interference, would have bastinadoed the Rais, who, they said with some reason, ought to have known better.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
To keep fit he put in 20 minutes a day bastinadoing a dummy with a bamboo sword, until influenza laid him low last winter and politicians forced his resignation as War Minister.
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Generally a man is never more uselessly employed than when he is at this trick of bastinadoing asses' hide.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
