knout

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The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moscow's long-suffering moviegoers glowed vindictively: the managers of the city's neighborhood moviehouses were at last writhing under the official knout.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new, obnoxiously corporate-modeled, self-franchising Guggenheim may run on laptops, but what it really needs is an editorial pencil -- if not a knout.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Russia the Nihilists prefer chaos to the government of the bayonet, Siberia and the knout, and these intrepid men have kept upon the coast of despotism one beacon fire of hope.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Others he saved from the knout, and others from banishment.

From Peter the Great by Abbott, Jacob