also 8 -onado. [f. prec. sb.]
1. To beat with a stick; to thrash, thwack. arch.
1614. [see next].
1633. Marmyon, Fine Comp., iv. 5. A gentleman that I bastinadoed the other day.
1728. Morgan, Algiers, II. iv. 273. Cruelly bastonadoed on the Shoulders, Buttocks, Belly, and Feet.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 156. He bastinadoed the young sinner severely, with a thick whip.
2. spec. To beat or cane on the soles of the feet.
1688. Lond. Gaz., No. 2318/3. Were put on the Rack, or Bastinadoed.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 547. The Sallee rover, who threatened to bastinado a Christian captive to death.
