Plitt

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in Russia. historical

    "Not a few of these carry with them the germ of inevitable death, their frames being enfeebled, and their constitutions broken by having undergone the cruel sentence of the plitt."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

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"Not a few of these carry with them the germ of inevitable death, their frames being enfeebled, and their constitutions broken by having undergone the cruel sentence of the plitt."

Etymology

From Russian плеть (pletʹ, “whip”).

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