knout

If you thought that the 1% were the knout, turn on your TV and watch the birth of the Era of the .001%.

The tin or lead mines, the ankle-chains, the knout, and many things that were far worse to a beautiful woman!

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.

Don't talk to me of the knout or the stick!

Knout, nowt, n. a whip formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Russia: punishment inflicted by the knout.