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Knout

Type of whip

A knout (, ) is a Russian whip that consists of a rawhide thong or a rope attached to a long wooden handle. Commonly used for prodding horses or cattle, knouts were also used for flagellation as a corporal punishment in Russian history. The English word is a spelling-pronunciation of a French transliteration of the Russian word кнут (knut), which means "whip".

Etymology

The word may be derived from the Swedish knutpiska, a kind of whip with knots. The stem knut is of generic Germanic origin; compare with the German Knute, Dutch knoet (both meaning knout) and with Old Norse knutr, Anglo-Saxon cnotta and English knot.

For corporal punishment

According to Brockhaus and Efron, a typical knout used by Russian executioners consisted of a wooden handle about half arshin (35 cm) to which attached was a thick braided rawhide piece, one arshin (70 cm) long. The latter piece ended in a metal ring, to which was attached a wide rawhide belt made as long, also of one arshin length with a stiffened beak-like end.

"Punishment with an Ordinary Knout" (1766), depicting the flogging of [[Natalia Lopukhina

Knouts were used in Russia for flogging as formal corporal punishment of criminals and political offenders. The victim was tied to a post or on a triangle of wood and stripped, receiving the specified number of strokes on the back. A sentence of 100 or 120 lashes was equivalent to a death sentence.

Emperor Nicholas I abolished punishment by knout in 1845, after years of deliberation, and replaced it with the pleti,

References

"knot {{!}} Etymology of knot by etymonline".
{{cite Efron. Кнут, орудие наказания
Lagny, Germain de. (1854). "The Knout and the Russians: Or, the Muscovite Empire, the Czar, and his people". Harper&Brothers.
a lighter whip, commonly with three tails, which was used previously for punishment as well.{{cite Efron. Плети

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