KNOUT

knout

(noun) a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

knout (plural knouts)

A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.

Verb

knout (third-person singular simple present knouts, present participle knouting, simple past and past participle knouted)

To flog or beat with a knout.

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): whip

Source: Wiktionary

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Knout (nout or nt), n. Etym: [Russ. knut'; prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. knut knot, knout, Icel. kn knot: cf. F. knout. See Knot.]

Definition: A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

Knout, v. t.

Definition: To punish with the knout Brougham.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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