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n. A leather scourge used for flogging.

v. To flog with a knout.

n. 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.

v. To flog or beat with a knout.

n. A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The lash is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

v. To punish with the knout.

n. A whip or scourge formerly used in Russia for the punishment of the worst criminals.

To punish with the knout or whip.

n. a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners

"Like Catharine II., her envied contemporary, she consulted no ties of nature in the disposal of her children, -- a system more in character where the knout is the logician than among nations boasting higher civilization: indeed her rivalry with Catharine even made her grossly neglect their education."

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