bastinado
Feet-striking corporal punishment
Bastinado is a form of corporal punishment in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick or rod.
The practice was historically common in parts of Asia and the Middle East.
The word can also refer to the stick itself or to the act of administering such a beating: The prisoner received fifty blows of the bastinado.
Beating as punishment
- caningStriking with a rod
- whippingRepeated striking blows
- corporalOf the flesh
- beatingRepeated striking or pulsing
lashing · strapping · paddling · birching · torture · interrogation · discipline · chastisement
flogging
Beating as punishment
beating · lashing · strapping · paddling · birching · torture · interrogation · discipline · chastisement · flagellation
- punishmentsjail, prison, timeout, grounded, fine
- Chinese lawcriminal code, marriage law, inheritance law, judicial reform, penal servitude
- corporal punishmentflogging, whipping, caning, lashing, beating
- punishment toolswhip, chains, shackles, rack, stocks
- torturerack, the rack, thumbscrew, thumbscrews, iron maiden
- torture devicesrack, iron maiden, thumbscrew, thumbscrews, pillory
bastinadoflogging
Beating as punishment
whipping · lashing · flagellation · birching · scourging
bastinadoimprisonment
Legal detention in jail
incarceration · fine · monetary penalty · exile · banishment
bastinadofoot massage
Manual therapy for feet
reflexology · pedicure · healing touch · comfort · caress