bastinado

1. A blow with a cudgel or stick.
2. Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.

falanga

give the bastinado

From Spanish bastonada (compare French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).

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