knout

IPA: naʊt

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.

Examples of "knout" in Sentences

The knout is a terrible i fli6tion ufed in this country.
"knout" partakes a good deal of this same character of suffering.
He said that one of his purposes in staying in town, was to 'knout' me every day ” didn't he?
When Jason Philip came back from the inn, he said: “To believe that people can be ruled without the knout is a fatal delusion.”
You peasants are getting too saucy since you ceased to be serfs, and the knout is the best school for you to learn politics in.
Naass swept the blanket from his shoulders, disclosing the gnarled and twisted flesh, marked with the unmistakable striations of the knout.
The knout was a large and strong whip, the lash of which consists of a tough, thick thong of leather, prepared in a particular way, so as greatly to increase the intensity of the agony caused by the blows inflicted with it.
Like Catharine II., her envied contemporary, she consulted no ties of nature in the disposal of her children, -- a system more in character where the knout is the logician than among nations boasting higher civilization: indeed her rivalry with Catharine even made her grossly neglect their education.