bastonade means To beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.
Why this word is great
BASTONADE — [Verb] To beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet. From the French bastonade, from baston (an early spelling of baton, meaning "stick") + the suffix -ade (denoting an action or its result). Unlike bastinado, which specifies the soles as the anatomical target, or cudgel, which denotes the bludgeoning instrument itself, bastonade is the grim, procedural act—the clinical administration of calibrated pain. It is the whistle of the cane through air, the sharp crack against a stretched sole, and the rhythmic counting off of blows in a sun-baked courtyard; a word that transforms violence into a verb of ceremony, a formalized descent from person to punished object.
verb
- To beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.“A lady, injured by an Austrian soldier, reproached him, and was bastonaded. Repeating her reproaches while under the bastonado, she was bastonaded more.”