knout
(noun) a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
knout (third-person singular simple present knouts, present participle knouting, simple past and past participle knouted)
To flog or beat with a knout.
• (to whip or scourge): whip
Source: Wiktionary
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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