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knouter

knouter noun: one who wields a knout, especially a Russian official who uses it to administer punishment.

Noun

knouter (plural knouters)

  1. One who wields a knout, especially a Russian official who uses it to administer punishment.
    • Czar — "Have you fastened the alarm telling of the approach of strangers thirty miles away on each door?" Attendant — " Yes, blessed knouter.1890, The Judge - Volume 18, page 334
    • It is true that the first hour after the punishment was generally so full of suffering that the knouted was sometimes unjust to the knouter, but this feeling seldom out lasted the evening, and it was rare when it held out after the first glass of spirits that the operator drank to the health of his...1895, Alexandre Dumas, La Marquise de Brinvilliers. Vaninka. La Constantin, page 111

Examples of knouter in a sentence

  • The hideous features of the knouter pleaded in favour of the young heroine, who, amid a scene of general enthusiasm, was acquitted without hesitation on the part of the jury.1896, Henri Rochefort, Ernest W. Smith, The Adventures of My Life - Volume 2, page 190:
  • lvan once had the honour of serving as official knouter to the Great White Tsar, and he has his own ideas of sport.1924, Richar Connell, The Most Dangerous Game:

Forms of knouter

pluralknouters

Origin of knouter

From knout + -er.

Questions about knouter

What does knouter mean?
Knouter means one who wields a knout, especially a Russian official who uses it to administer punishment.
How do you use knouter in a sentence?
The hideous features of the knouter pleaded in favour of the young heroine, who, amid a scene of general enthusiasm, was acquitted without hesitation on the part of the jury.
What part of speech is knouter?
Knouter is a noun.
What is the plural of knouter?
The plural of knouter is knouters.

Words near knouter in the dictionary

  1. Knouses
  2. knout
  3. knoutberries
  4. knoutberry
  5. knouted
  6. knouter
  7. knouters
  8. knouting
  9. knoutings
  10. knouts
  11. know

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