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knout

(nout)

A leather scourge used for flogging.

tr.v. knout·ed, knout·ing, knouts

To flog with a knout.

[French, from Russian knut, from Old Russian knutŭ, from Old Norse knūtr, knot in cord.]

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knout

(naʊt)

a stout whip used formerly in Russia as an instrument of punishment

[C17: from Russian knut, of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse knūtr knot]

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knout

(naʊt)
n.

1. a whip with a lash of leather thongs, formerly used in Russia for flogging criminals.

v.t.

2. to flog with the knout.

[1710–20; < French < Russian knut, Old Russian]

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knout - a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners

whip - an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping

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knut

knout

[naʊt] N → knut m

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knout

n → Knute f

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We all profess the Christian law of forgiveness of injuries and love of our neighbors, the law in honor of which we have built in Moscow forty times forty churches- but yesterday a deserter was knouted to death and a minister of that same law of love and forgiveness, a priest, gave the soldier a cross to kiss before his execution." So thought Pierre, and the whole of this general deception which everyone accepts, accustomed as he was to it, astonished him each time as if it were something new.

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should fairly be counted among the barbarians." (24) In the era before the 1848 revolutions, Heinrich Heine wrote, presumably with Custine in mind: "and what are common Russians but two-legged cattle that he [Peter I] knouted up to humans?" (25) In 1945, the aphorism circulated in Rostock that "Selbst in Buttergebraten, ist der Russe ungeraten," roughly: "Even frying him in butter won't make the Russian better." (26)

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Other 7-letter words ABJURED ACETONE ACRYLIC ADORNED BEGONIA BEMUSED BENZOIC BLOUSON CENTRED CHINKED CHOROID CLOTHED CLOWNED DELTOID DEMONIC DILUTED DIMPLED DISUSED EMPTIED ENSURED FLORIDA GLORIED HISTONE IMPUTED INSURED JOSTLED KNOUTED LOUVRED MORWONG NORYSHE ORYZOID (Sted) STUYRNE (= stern) BILTONG DELUGED LOUTED