knout
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knout englanniksi
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.
(quote-book). In Two Volumes|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=Moxon|Edward Moxon, Son & Co.,(nb...)|date=27 October 1832|year_published=1874|volume=II|page=217|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXSxd1QWfLIC&pg=PA217|oclc=894138547|passage=In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / (..) / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1992|author=Will Self|title=Cock and Bull
(l), scourge
a flogging administered with such a multiple whip; a condemnation to suffer it