knouting

knouting
a) A leather scourge.

The knouting of the peasants went on for days in revenge for their uprising

b) A flogging with a knout.

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  • knouting — naÊŠt n. whip, lash v. whip, beat with a knout …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Knout — A knout (IPAEng|ˈnaʊt) is a heavy scourge like multiple whip, usually made of a bunch of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated.The English word stems from English phonetic pronunciation of a… …   Wikipedia

  • knout — 1. noun /naʊt/ 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. 2. verb /naʊt/ To flog or beat with a knout. , 1992 …   Wiktionary

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