bastinado

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This steelyeyed, iron-jawed playboy of the Senate, this Voltaire-tongued bastinado of the uplifters, this Rabelais-reading Jeffersonian �this James A. Reed of Missouri�what a sizzling presidential campaign he would hammer out!

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The enormous iron dock groaned and clanged under the mad bastinado.

From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.

On the other hand, we extend the meaning of drub, the Arabic word for bastinado, to a beating of any kind.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest