Associations to the word «Knout»
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Wiktionary
KNOUT, noun. 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.
KNOUT, verb. To flog or beat with a knout.
Dictionary definition
KNOUT, noun. A whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.