What is the meaning of Knout?

  • (v.t.) To punish with the knout.
  • (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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