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Meanings of knout in English

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кнут
Spanish
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Scourge-like multiple whip.

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          Usage of knout in English
          1
          Russian serfs record their despotism, cowering at the memory of the knout.
          The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 / A Magazine...
          2
          The torture which was applied to Thekelavitaw was scourging with a knout.
          Peter the Great
          3
          Ah, this beautiful Countess Eleonore shall be made acquainted with the knout!
          The Daughter of an Empress
          4
          The knout-theknout-andthat attended with public exposure in the market-place.
          The Pacha of Many Tales
          5
          Chancellor Bestuchef, in the year 1756, was forced to confession by the knout.
          The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1
          6
          But the terrors of the knout and Siberia are ever present before them.
          Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II / From Teheran To Yoko...
          7
          She had the heavy whip-theknout-appliedto the bared backs of earnest reformers.
          A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
          8
          And raising the knout he struck Ogareff a sharp blow across the face.
          Michael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar
          9
          The Jews were lashed with a double knout, a military and a civil.
          History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] / From...
          10
          He will receive a hundred and one blows of the knout.
          Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)
          11
          And then he lashed me over the back with his knout.
          Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03
          12
          It was not inhumanity, but fear of the knout that hurried him away.
          Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home
          13
          Lettres-de-cachet, the knout, and cabinet-orders, superseding all right, are become law!
          The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
          14
          The knout greeted in Russia the first indulgence, and death followed the second offence.
          The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 / A Magazi...
          15
          Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.
          Vanity Fair
          16
          Then he swings the knout anew, with the same accuracy and the same result.
          The Daughter of an Empress
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