Bastinado

pl. Bastinadoes

1. A blow with a stick or cudgel.
2. A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.

imp. & p. p. Bastinadoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bastinadoing

1. To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.