Baculine
pertaining to the rod or its use in punishing:
baculine discipline in the classroom.
Historical Examples
baculine, bak′ū-līn, adj. pertaining to the stick or cane—in flogging.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
The baculine method was a quite common mode of argument in those days.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray
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