English
Etymology
Via French, from Russian кн��, from Old Norse knútr, �knot in a cord�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/na�t/

Noun
en-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.

#*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)

Translations
Dutch: knoet
French: knout m
German: Knute f

Verb
en-verb

1. To flog or beat with a knout.

#:*1992: Different, isn�t it? It�s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other. � Will Self, Cock and Bull

French

Noun
knout m

1. knout, scourge
2. a flogging administered with such a multiple whip; a condemnation to suffer it

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