Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - bastinado

 I. noun  or bastinade  (plural -nadoes or -nades)  Etymology: Spanish bastonada, from baston stick, from Late Latin bastum  Date: 1572  1. a blow with a stick or cudgel  2.  a. a beating especially with a stick  b. a punishment consisting of beating the soles of the feet with a stick  3. stick, cudgel  II. transitive verb  (-doed; -doing)  Date: 1599 to subject to repeated blows BASTING  I. noun  Date: 15th century  1. the action of a sewer who bastes  2.  a. the thread used in ~  b. the stitching made by ~  II. noun  Date: 1530  1. the action of one that bastes food  2. the liquid used in ~  III. noun  Date: 1590 a severe beating