Meaning of knout

knout

Pronunciation: (nout), [key]

— n.

a whip with a lash of leather thongs, formerly used in Russia for flogging criminals.

—v.t.

to flog with the knout.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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knout (Thesaurus)

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