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knout

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/naʊt/
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/naʊt/ · [nʌʊt]

Definition of knout

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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.
    “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.””
    “Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. 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.
    “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.””
    “Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous.”
    “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.”

verb

  1. To flog or beat with a knout.
    “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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Etymology

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.

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