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knouts

knouts is the plural of knout.

knouts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of knout.

Meaning of knout

Noun

knout (plural knouts)

  1. 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.
    • In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.1832 October 27, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Derwent Coleridge, “Tales out of School. A Dropt Letter from a Lady.”, in The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, […]. In Two Volumes, 4th edition, volume...

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Questions about knouts

What is knouts the plural of?
Knouts is the plural of knout.

Words near knouts in the dictionary

  1. knouted
  2. knouter
  3. knouters
  4. knouting
  5. knoutings
  6. knouts
  7. know
  8. know a B from a battledore
  9. know A from B
  10. know about
  11. know any better

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