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What (who) is knout - definition
SCOURGE-LIKE MULTIPLE WHIP
Great knout; Knouter
Knout
·vt To punish with the knout.
II. Knout ·noun 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
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¦ noun (in imperial Russia) a whip used for punishment.
¦ verb flog with such a whip.
Origin
C17: via Fr. from Russ. knut, from ON knutr; related to knot1.
Knout
A knout is a heavy scourge-like multiple whip, usually made of a series of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated. The English word stems from a spelling-pronunciation of a French transliteration of the Russian word кнут (knut), which simply means "whip".
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Knout
A knout is a heavy scourge-like multiple whip, usually made of a series of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated. The English word stems from a spelling-pronunciation of a French transliteration of the Russian word кнут (knut), which simply means "whip".
Examples of use of knout
1. Simon Busch on how he stopped smoking and learned to love tobacco Friday June 3, 2005 I did not risk castration, as I would have in 17th–century Russia under the reign of Michael Feodorovich, or flogging with the knout or having my lips slit – the tsar‘s other preferred penalties.
2. Fearful stories used be told; of the atrocious way in in which these wretched chattels were often treated; of peasants whose backs for years were never free from the gashes of the stick or the knout [leather scourge]. Matters had ceased to be so bad in our own day; but the apprehensions of a rising of the serfs had passed into a proverb in Russia.