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What does knout mean?
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NounPlural: knouts |
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| knout - a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners |
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- knout (n.)
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.)
To punish with the knout.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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knout
nowt, n. a whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Russia: punishment inflicted by the knout. [Russ. knute.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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A scourge composed of many thongs of skin, plaited, and interwoven with wire, which was till lately the favorite instrument of punishment in Russia for all classes and degrees of criminals. The offender was tied to two stakes, stripped, and received on the back the specified number of lashes; 100 or 120 were equivalent to sentence of death, but in many cases the victim died under the operation long before this number was completed. This punishment is at present only inflicted upon ordinary criminals, such as incendiaries or assassins. It is no longer in use in the army, except when a soldier is dismissed for ill conduct, in which case 3 to 10 lashes are given, in order to disgrace the soldier, rather than punish him.
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🔤- knout, noun, singular of knouts.
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