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Definition of: knout
(nout) noun
A whip or scourge used formerly for flogging in Russia: often a bundle of thongs twisted with wire.
—v.t. To flog with the knout. [<F <Russian knut knot, whip, prob. <Scand. Cf. Sw. knut.]
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