knout

(Engels)

Noun

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.

Verb

To flog or beat with a knout.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/naʊt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Via French knout from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”). Doublet of knot, node, and nodus.

Sinonieme

whip

scourge

horsewhip

lash

cudgel

switch

truncheon

quirt

flagellum

Vertalings

knout

knoet

Knute

knut

bicz

κνούτο

knut

μαστίγιο

knut

virga

lorum

flagellum

zweep

bat

nahajka