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Definition of Knouts

Knout
Knout Knout, v. t. To punish with the knout. --Brougham.

Meaning of Knouts from wikipedia

- attached to a long wooden handle. Commonly used for prodding horses or cattle, knouts were also used for flagellation as a corporal punishment in Russian history...
- suspending the victims (strappado). The suspended victims were whipped with a knout and sometimes burned with torches. Duke of Exeter's daughter Procrustes...
- Dovid Knut or Knout (Russian: До́вид Кнут) (23 September [O.S. 10 September] 1900–15 February 1955), real name Duvid Meerovich (later David Mironovich)...
- Punishment with a knout...
- her days in an asylum after the public whipping. In the Russian Empire, knouts were used to flog criminals and political offenders. Sentences of a hundred...
- Mesogobius batrachocephalus, the knout goby or toad goby, is one of the species of gobiid fish native to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov basins. It...
- currency in the fictitious Harry Potter universe KNUT, a radio station in Guam Knout, a heavy scourge-like multiple whip Knudsen (disambiguation) Knutsford Knuth...
- between being hunted or turned over to Ivan, who once served as official knouter for the Great White Czar. Rainsford denounces the hunt as barbarism, but...
- Comprehensive topical survey. online Kahan, Arcadius. The Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout: An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia (1985) Kahan, Arcadius...
- Punishment with a knout. Whipping was a common punishment for Russian serfs....