knout

English - Turkish

Definition of knout in English Turkish dictionary

kamçı

Rus kamçısı

{i} bir nevi kamçi

{i} knut

English - English

Definition of knout in English English dictionary

To flog or beat with a knout

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

{n} a Russian punishment by a lether thong

n. A leather scourge used for flogging.v. to flog with a knout

A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia

The lash is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh

{i} whip, lash

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

{f} whip, beat with a knout

To punish with the knout

a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners

Etymology

[ 'naut, sometimes 'n&uum ] (noun.) 1716. Via French, from Russian кнут, from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”).

Tenses

knouting, knouted