Present participle of bastinado; the act of administering this punishment in the Spanish/variant spelling form.
Gerund/present participle formed by adding -ing to bastinado. This variant emphasizes the Spanish-derived form of the word while expressing the continuous action.
The different spellings of this word (bastinade vs. bastinado) in different historical texts actually reflect the languages and regions where Europeans encountered and documented the practice.
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