bastinado

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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

"If he be in his senses, his impertinence demands the bastinado; if mad, Lady Eleanore should be secured from further inconvenience by his confinement."

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

"May I die of the bastinado, if I ever felt any such thing!" said Lazaro, proudly.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery