bastinado
Example Sentences
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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
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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
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They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots of protest or direct coercion of the bastinado or bayonet kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The enormous iron dock groaned and clanged under the mad bastinado.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.
“But your highness will probably be tired; and as I have now told how it was that I suffered the bastinado, you will perhaps wait till to-morrow for the history of the bowstring.”
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Marryat, Frederick
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.