knout

Speech parts

1. knout - Noun

2. knout - Verb

Meaning

A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

To punish with the knout.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

birch belt cat flog switch crop cane whip strap lace scourge lash thong rawhide flail
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Antonyms

garrison guard cover police protect screen
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Hypernyms

whip

Anagrams

Kutno

Examples

Punishment with a knout Other than these, the rights of a serf were very limited. Source: Internet

Emperor Nicholas I abolished the punishment by knout in 1845, and replaced it with the pleti, lashes with three thongs which could end in lead balls. Source: Internet

Still others maintain it is of generic Germanic origin, not necessarily Scandinavian, comparing it with the German Knute, Dutch knoet (both meaning knout) and with Old Norse knutr, Anglo-Saxon cnotta and English knot. Source: Internet

The Russian knout had different forms. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

knoud knouleche Knouse knouter knouting know