Definitions For Bastinado

noun

  • A form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
  • A cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet

verb

  • Beat somebody on the soles of the feet

Is Bastinado a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
14

The word Bastinado is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Bastinado in a Sentence

  • The guards savagely beat the prisoner's feet with a bastinado

Synonyms for Bastinado

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