knout

Meaning of knout

noun
  1. 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.
    1980: Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous. — Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

verb

To flog or beat with a knout.

Information about knout

  • The plural form of knout is: knouts.
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Hyphenation of knout

knout

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • knout is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with knout

nout, cleanout, fanout, pinout, rainout, spinout, burnout, turnout, wornout, snout, tubesnout, weaselsnout, runout, brownout

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