In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.
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Knout
//naʊt//
Synonyms for "knout" (44 found)
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Closest matches (9)
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Related words (22)
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Translations
27 translations across 17 languages.
Bashkir
1 entries- сыбыртҡы noun (kind of whip)
Czech
2 entries- bič noun (kind of whip)
- knuta noun (kind of whip)
Dutch
1 entries- knoet noun (kind of whip)
Esperanto
1 entries- knuto noun (kind of whip)
Faroese
1 entries- knútakoyril noun (kind of whip)
Finnish
1 entries- nagaikka noun (kind of whip)
French
1 entries- knout noun (kind of whip)
Georgian
3 entries- მათრახი noun (kind of whip)
- როზგი noun (kind of whip)
- შოლტი noun (kind of whip)
German
1 entries- Knute noun (kind of whip)
Hungarian
1 entries- kancsuka noun (kind of whip)
Ido
1 entries- knuto noun (kind of whip)
Italian
1 entries- knut noun (kind of whip)
Latvian
1 entries- pātaga noun (kind of whip)
Polish
3 entries- bicz noun (kind of whip)
- knut noun (kind of whip)
- nahajka noun (kind of whip)
Russian
4 entries- бич noun (kind of whip)
- кнут noun (kind of whip)
- нага́йка noun (kind of whip)
- ро́зга noun (kind of whip)
Spanish
1 entries- knut noun (kind of whip)
Swedish
2 entries- knut noun (kind of whip)
- knutpiska noun (kind of whip)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.
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“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.”
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Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous.
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