knout

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.”

2. fiil To flog or beat with a knout.

   “Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.”