Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bastinado

2 senses of bastinado

Sense 1
bastinado -- (a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet)
       => cudgel -- (a club that is used as a weapon)

Sense 2
bastinado, falanga -- (a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels)
       => torture, torturing -- (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bastinado

1 sense of bastinado

Sense 1
bastinado -- (beat somebody on the soles of the feet)
       => beat -- (hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe")