What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's....
bastinado (noun)
Punishment that involves caning the soles of someone's feet.
"I will deal in poison with thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways: therefore tremble and depart."
--William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene I
After that election, there are several people who could use a bastinado.
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