KNOUT

Knout

A knout is a heavy scourge-like multiple whip, usually made of a bunch of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated.

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knout

Noun

  1. 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

  1. To flog or beat with a knout.
    • 1992: Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other. — Will Self, Cock and Bull


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