knout

Example Sentences

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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

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

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

I shall never forget that awful jolting I got as you whirled me round about In your backless car; for your bumping, bolting, You really, my Vanka, deserved the knout.

From Punch 1893.07.29 by Various