/bas'teuh nay"doh, -nah"doh/ , n. , pl. bastinadoes , v. , bastinadoed, bastinadoing .
n.
1. a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
2. a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.
3. a stick or cudgel.
v.t.
4. to beat with a stick, cane, etc., esp. on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
[ 1570-80; earlier bastanado bastonada ( bastón stick (see BATON) + -ada -ADE 1 ) ]