Definitions for knout

knout knout

Spelling: [nout]
IPA: /naʊt/

Knout is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in knout (knotu).

Definitions for knout

noun

  1. a whip with a lash of leather thongs, formerly used in Russia for flogging criminals.

verb (used with object)

  1. to flog with the knout.

Origin of knout

1710-20; French Russian knut, Old Russian Old Norse knūtr knot

Examples for knout

Will you swear to that, or shall I work the knout in order to bring out the truth?

Some were beheaded after undergoing the punishment of the knout or battocks.

He holds in both hands the instrument of punishment—the knout.

Strike and keep on striking as if you were giving her the knout.

Chancellor Bestuchef, in the year 1756, was forced to confession by the knout.

A tipsy man had thirty lashes with the knout for committing the like offence.

I would have had it out of you with the knout then, my excellent friend.

The knout—the knout—and that attended with public exposure in the market-place.

Then he swings the knout anew, with the same accuracy and the same result.

It was not inhumanity, but fear of the knout that hurried him away.

Word Value for knout
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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