knout

knout has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.
• v. t.. To punish with the knout.
• n.. a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners