knout

(Anglès)

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.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/naʊt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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.

Conceptes

fuet

knut

Sinònims

whip

scourge

horsewhip

lash

cudgel

switch

truncheon

quirt

flagellum

Traduccions

knout

knoet

Knute

knut

bicz

κνούτο

knut

μαστίγιο

lorum

flagellum

zweep

bat

nahajka

chicote

cnute