bastonade

English

Etymology

From baston, early spelling of baton + -ade

Verb

bastonade (third-person singular simple present bastonades, present participle bastonading, simple past and past participle bastonaded)

(archaic) To beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.
- 1851, Theodore Dwight, The Roman Republic of 1849
  A lady, injured by an Austrian soldier, reproached him, and was bastonaded. Repeating her reproaches while under the bastonado, she was bastonaded more.

References

Grose, Francis, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue / Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence: altered and enlarged (London; 1811)

Venetian

Noun

bastonade

plural of bastonada

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