BASTINADO

I. noun or bastinade (plural -nadoes or -nades) Etymology: Spanish bastonada, from bastón stick, from Late Latin bastum Date: 1572 a blow with a stick or cudgel, 2. a beating especially with a stick, a punishment consisting of beating the soles of the feet with a stick, stick , cudgel , II. transitive verb (-doed; -doing) Date: 1599 to subject to repeated blows