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knout::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | whip |
Examples of knout
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This week five foreign ministers went to Georgia to bemoan Russia's knout-rattling.
From the economist.com
The suspended victims were whipped with knout and sometimes burned with hot torches.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The knout greeted in Russia the first indulgence, and death followed the second offence.
From the theatlantic.com
Not a boy in the school but had watched his clothes cut to ribbons before them, under the knout.
From the gutenberg.org
Special pleading in Russia has never been based on justice, simply on the baser instincts of the whip and the knout.
From the economist.com
Varieties include the Russian knout and South African sjambok, in addition to the scourge and the French martinet.
From the en.wikipedia.org
For the last 18 years, President Aleksandr Lukashenko has ruled the country's 9.5 million people with cudgel and knout.
From the businessweek.com
Even 100 years ago, captors were instinctively aware that mental anguish was far more effective than the knout or the noose.
From the time.com
On 19 June, the weak and ailing tsarevich received twenty-five strokes with the knout, and then, on the 24th, he was subject to fifteen more.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners
- 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. ...
- 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; To flog or beat with a knout
