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Noun: knout  nawt
  1. A whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners
    "The knout was a feared instrument of punishment in Tsarist Russia"

Sounds like: knot, nout

Derived forms: knouts

Type of: whip

Encyclopedia: Knout