BASTINA'DO, n. [See Baste.] A sound beating with a stick or cudgel; the blows given with a stick or staff. This name is given to a punishment in use among the Turks, of beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.