bastinado

• His resistance, however, was in vain:———not only subdued him, but determined also to punish the refractory slave; and proceeded forthwith to put this determination in practice, by inflicting a kind of bastinado on the inner fleshy side of the boy's arm, which, during the operation, was twisted round with some degree of technical skill, to render the pain more acute. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I.
• He had expected that chains and the bastinado, if not worse, would certainly follow, but he had made up his mind to go through with it--if need be to die--for Hester's sake. —  The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story
• The night in which they were first placed in neighbouring cells, or niches, followed a day in which Sommers had received an application of the bastinado, and been put into irons for fierce rebellion. —  The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story
• He is a desperate character, and in other lands might be dangerous; but he is safe enough here, for the bastinado is a terrible instrument of torture, and the man is now not only desperate in wrath, but is sometimes desperately frightened. —  The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
• I've seed poor owld women git the bastinado--that's what they calls it--for nothin' at all a'most. —  The Pirate City An Algerine Tale

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