D defs.my
Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Knout

/(nout [or] no͞ot)/ · IPA /naʊt/
01 n. A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The lash is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and …
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    A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The lash is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.
02 v. t. To punish with the knout.
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    To punish with the knout.