bastinadeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• bastinado

名詞

bastinade (複数形 bastinades)

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.
   • 1775, Frank Moore, Diary of the American Revolution:

     Rudely forced to drink tea, Massachusetts in anger
     Spills the tea on John Bull—John falls on to bang her;
     Massachusetts, enraged, calls her neighbors to aid
     And give Master John a severe bastinade.
     Now, good men of the law, pray who is in fault,
     The one who begins or resists the assault?

動詞

bastinade (三人称単数 現在形 bastinades, 現在分詞 bastinading, 過去形および過去分詞形 bastinaded)

1. To beat in this manner.