Knout

Quick meaning: Knout is a noun meaning To flog or beat with a knout.

Meaning

To flog or beat with a knout.

More Meanings

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.

Example Sentences

Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.

Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.

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.

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

Word Forms

• knouts
• knouting
• knouted

Synonyms for knout

Depending on context, synonyms include whip.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include devil-on-the-neck, knap, bareknuckling, kneeful, knifeplay, knot.

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