Brewer's: Knout

(1 syl.) is a knotted bunch of thongs made of hide. It is a Tartar invention, but was introduced into Russia. (Knout, Tartar for knot.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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