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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bastonad. n. [F. bastonnade; also e.m.E. bastonade (1660).] A cudgelling. —a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI 167.
The proclamatioun was sa weill payit with bastonads that nayne came eftir him for performance of the lyk erand
