Usually means: Whip with leather thongs, Russian.
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  1. knout: Merriam-Webster
  2. knout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. knout: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knout: Vocabulary.com
  6. knout: Wordnik
  7. knout: Wiktionary
  8. knout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. knout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. knout: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Knout, knout: Dictionary.com
  12. Knout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Knout: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. knout: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. knout: Rhymezone
  16. Knout: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. knout: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. knout: FreeDictionary.org
  19. knout: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. knout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. knout: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See knouted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (knout)

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.

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