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発音

• IPA^(key): /naʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [nʌʊt]
• 韻: -aʊt

名詞

knout (複数形 knouts)

1. 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.
   • 1832 October 27, Winthrop Mackworth Praed; Derwent Coleridge, “Tales out of School. A Dropt Letter from a Lady.”, in The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, […]. In Two Volumes, volume II, 4th edition, London: E[dward] Moxon, Son & Co., […], published 1874, OCLC 894138547, page 217:

     In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 5, in Vanity Fair:

     Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous.

   • 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 193:

     The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep.

上位語

• scourge