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Definitions
a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners
Word origin
Via French knout from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”). Doublet of knot, node, and nodus.
Used in a sentence
“In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.”
“Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.”
““I don't suppose a Russian convict under the knout is able to amuse the rest of his gang; and all our men-folk here are gilded convicts.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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