Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAS-TI-NADE', or BAS-TI-NA'DO, n. [Fr. bastonnade; Sp. bastonada; It. bastonata, from bastone, a stick or staff. See Baste.]

A sound beating with a stick or cudgel; the blows given with a stick or staff. This name is given to a punishment in use among the Turks, of beating an offender on the soles of his feet.