Knout

In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.

Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.

“I don't suppose a Russian convict under the knout is able to amuse the rest of his gang; and all our men-folk here are gilded convicts.”

Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous.

The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep.

Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.