arch. [In 17th c., bastonade, a. F. bastonnade (ad. Sp. bastonada or It. bastonata, taking place of OF. bastonée: see -ADE); or Eng. adaptation of bastonado, after Fr.: see BASTINADO.] = BASTINADO sb. 1–3.
1660. Plea for Mon., in Harl. Misc., I. 17. We have learned quietly to take the bastonade.
c. 1700. Gentl. Instruc. (1732), 351 (D.). They would … submit to a bastinade rather than occasion bloodshed.
1813. J. C. Hobhouse, Journey, I. 297. Offenders, whom he may punish with the bastinade, or in any degree short of death.
1878. Lady Herbert, trans. Hübner’s Ramble, III. ii. 487. Sure of their bastonade and sure also of their taels.
