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bastinado

[bas-tuh-ney-doh, -nah-doh] / ˌbæs təˈneɪ doʊ, -ˈnɑ doʊ /
NOUN
cudgel
Synonyms
STRONGEST
nightstick truncheon
STRONG
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WEAK
billyclub spontoon

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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

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

I did not live to bastinado Krak; nor would I now had I the power.

From The King's Mirror by Hope, Anthony

I need not say that the reality of Mr. Barker was a very terrible awakening, which contained no lineament of my purple dream, save the bastinado.

From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature by Various