Definitionn. a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire
Last update: June 11, 2015
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Accordingly, on the 10th of June, the weak and ailing tsarevich received twentyfive strokes with the knout (as then administered nobody ever survived thirty), and on the 24th fifteen more. [Please select]
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The knout that flogged his soul had a score of lashes, each with the sting of its own peculiar venom. [Please select]
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The overseer carries a knout, and unmercifully beats anyone who falls to the ground overcome by hard toil or hunger. [Please select]
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It sounds like--like the knout, like-- "Nance--what in hell's--" "I think I'm--frightened, Tom." [Please select]
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BELLO: (Savagely) The nosering, the pliers, the bastinado, the hanging hook, the knout I'll make you kiss while the flutes play like the Nubian slave of old.' [Please select]
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Had you called him indolent or useless he had smiled, but "daidlin', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch," drew blood at every stroke, like a Russian knout.' [Please select]
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