Definitions For Bastinade
Verb
bastinad To beat in this manner.Noun
BASTINADE (plural BASTINADEs) A blow with a stick or cudgel. 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.Alternative forms
bastinadoEtymology
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abstainedIs Bastinade a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
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Points in Different Games
Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
14
The word Bastinade is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Bastinade in a Sentence
- The guards savagely beat the prisoner's feet with a bastinado