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knout🔊

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.

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Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.
Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous.

To flog or beat with a knout.

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