Definition of "knouts" []

• Plural form of knout. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of knout. (verb)

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• "Whoever these fine chaps were, they were taking me out of the clutches of that rascal Ignatieff and his beastly knouts and nagaikas - I was loose again, and living, and if my fetters were galling me and my joints aching with strain and fatigue, if my body was foul and fit to drop, my heart was singing."
• "Meanwhile Labour Whips are doubtless oiling their sjamboks and knouts as I write."
• "The dusty road flanking the sanctuary was thick with stalls where merchants sold brightly colored knouts, crowns of thorns, rosaries, and the tiny metal votives called milagros."