bastinado

noun

a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels

a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet

verb

beat somebody on the soles of the feet

Roots

bastonbastin- · Spanish · stick, cudgel ado-ado · Spanish · action, result

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