(see prec.), arch. [f. prec. sb.] To thrash or thwack with a stick, esp. on the soles of the feet; to BASTINADO.
1601. R. Johnson, Kingd. & Commw., 59. The euening following he is well bastinaded.
1753. Hanway, Trav. (1762), I. III. xxxviii. 174. The shah … ordered the executioners to bastonade him to death.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIII. 828. Away with him … bow-string him, bastinade him.
