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Definition of 'knout'English
Noun
( en-noun)
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.
* 1980': Spray and then slogging '''knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous. — Anthony Burgess, ''Earthly Powers
* 2005': The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the '''knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep. — James Meek, ''The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 193)
Verb
( en-verb)
To flog or beat with a knout.
* 1992 , Will Self, Cock and Bull :
- Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.
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