(transitive) To furnish with a bastion.

An impure light brown sugar containing molasses.

A blow with a cudgel or stick.

(transitive) To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.

chaffweed.

The French national holiday celebrated on 14 July each year. It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the Fête de la Fédération was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French "nation".

plural of bastard

A prison in France, the storming of which in 1789 CE began the French Revolution.

plural of bastard sword

The state or quality of being bastardly.