bastinado

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The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.

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

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

The tax-gatherer also threatened the bastinado; and as the man who likes that punishment, or who could soften the heart of a Turkish tax assessor, has yet to be discovered, Yussuf invariably paid.

From Jimgrim and Allah's Peace by Mundy, Talbot

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