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	knout definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		transitive verb (past and past participle knout·ed, present participle knout·ing, 3rd person present singular knouts)
		beat somebody with knout: to flog somebody using a knout
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	KNOUT (from the French... - Online Information article about KNOUT (from the French...
		KNOUT (from the French transliteration of a Russian word of Scandinavian origin; cf.
		Nicholas I. abolished the earlier forms of knout and substituted the pleti, a three-thonged lash.
		Ostensibly the knout has been abolished throughout Russia and reserved for the penal settlements.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KHA_KRI/KNOUT_from_the_French_translite.html (535 words)

	Knout - LoveToKnow 1911
		KNOUT (from the French transliteration of a Russian word of Scandinavian origin; cf.
		The executioner was usually a criminal who had to pass through a probation and regular training; being let off his own penalties in return for his services.
		Peter the Great is traditionally accused of knouting his son Alexis to death, and there is little doubt that the boy was actually beaten till he died, whoever was the executioner.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Knout (251 words)

	knout
		by knout admin on Sun 9 Dec 2004 10:21 PM SAST
		Some of them are applicable to the simultaneous determination of the total sulphur in the acetylene, and in this respect become akin to the Gas Referees' method for the determination of the sulphur compounds in coal-gas.
		Of this he was aware; and, feeling, as I suppose, that he should make a bad serious defence, knew a comic one would better serve his turn: for his fancy and humour appear to be inexhaustible.
	knout.sdfsd2.org (734 words)

	Selections from The Knout and the Russians, by Germain de Langy, 1854
		This knout consists of a thong of thick leather, cut in a triangular form, from four to five yards long, and an inch wide, tapering off at one end, and broad at the other ; the small end is fastened to a little wooden handle, about two feet long.
		The executioner cut her flesh into shreds by one hundred strokes of the knout, from the shoulders to the lower portion of the loins.
		After the knout comes the rod, or the punishment known as that of " running the gauntlet " - a punishment of another description, but still more barbarous, since it is always, or, at least, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, followed by death.
	www.iras.ucalgary.ca /~volk/sylvia/Knout.htm (10360 words)

	Knout - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A knout (rhymes with "boot") is a whip, usually made of a bunch of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated.
		Some claim it was a Tatar invention and was introduced into Russia in the 15th century, maybe by Ivan III.
		The tool became synonymous in western European languages with what was seen as the tyrannical cruelty of the autocratic government of Russia, much as the sjambok brought to mind the Apartheid government of South Africa or lynching the period of Jim Crow in America.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Knout (195 words)

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		If someone’s slaves proceed to denounce those people whom they are serving in the matter of the sovereign’s well-being, or any treason case, or peasants [do the same] against the lords under whom they are living as peasants, and they present no evidence to support the accusation in that case: do not believe their denunciation.
		If pomeshchiks and votchinniks of the frontier towns learn of anything reprehensible, or of treason, among their slaves or peasants: they shall inform the sovereign about that, and in the provincial towns shall submit formal denunciations on the matter to the governors, and bring in their own slaves and peasants for arraignment.
		If a judge not of counselor rank commits such an injustice: inflict on those people a beating with the knout in the market place, and henceforth they shall not try judicial cases [i.e., they shall be deprived of their offices].
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kimball/1649-Ulj.htm (8848 words)

	Amazon.com: knout (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The knout and the scythe and The story of the hyenas by H. G Francq (Unknown Binding - 1980)
		The Knout a tale of Poland by Mrs.
		The knout and the Russians (Russia observed) by Germain de Lagny (Unknown Binding - 1970)
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	El knout
		El knout de Rusia se destaca por ambos motivos: es un instrumento cruel en cualquiera de sus variedades, y ha pasado a ser recordado como el símbolo de la tiranía de los zares.
		El nombre Knout, Knoot o Knut es la transliteración al cirílico de una palabra francesa, de origen probablemente escandinavo, knut, knot, knout en Suecia, kntr o knot en Islandia, relacionada con el inglés antigo cnotta, actualmente knot, y significaba originalmente nudo.
		El knout fue introducido en Rusia por Ivan III en el siglo 15, y usado por casi 400 años hasta su abolición por el Zar Nicolás I en 1845, quien lo reemplazó por un azote de tres colas, a veces con bolas de plomo en las puntas, llamado pleti, aunque probablemente se siguió usando después.
	www.ecstagony.com /spa/info/artinst/knout.htm (601 words)

	knout - definition by dict.die.net
		knout n : a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners
		See Knot.] A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia.
		The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.
	dict.die.net /knout (52 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Baroness M. De Packh: On The March to Siberia, c. 1840
		With this difference---every blow from the knout raises great welts on the flesh, and draws blood, and the blows are bestowed, not for cause, but simply out of wanton cruelty and a fiendish delight in torturing.
		If, after being thoroughly knouted, and given a short rest, they are still unable to stagger along, they are put in the carts which form part of the convoy, and carried on with the bundles and provisions.
		Some rave and curse, but the knout is applied to women as well as to men, and it soon hushes the openly rebellious into bearing the inevitable with obstinate gloom and enforced submission.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1840depakh-siberia.html (1447 words)

	Knout, en IndyRock
		Knout surgió en Noviembre del 98 en Granada, aunque la formación se acabó de cerrar dos meses después con la incorporación de la cantante.
		Entre los conciertos que hemos dado se puede destacar la actuación realizada en la fase final del concurso de maquetas "Espacio Libre", en Granada, junto con Freak XXI y DJ Junior, gracias a nuestra anterior grabación.
		Nuestra última maketa (Knout) fue grabada en diciembre de 2000 en Granada por carlos (Eskorzo) e incluye cinco temas.
	www.indyrock.es /knout.htm (226 words)

	Knout Family Coat of Arms by The Tree Maker
		Knout Family Shield and Knout surname history {cherry wood framed}
		Knout Family coat of arms with family crest {unframed}
		Knout Family coat of arms with family crest {cherry wood framed}
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	Vaninka Page 2
		The knout had traced three blue furrows on Gregory's shoulders.
		Ivan took another spring, and with the same skill as before he again enveloped the culprit's body with the hissing thong, ever taking care that the tip of it should not touch him.
		"Thank his excellency, Gregory," said Ivan, rolling the knout's lash round his hand, "for having spared you two strokes;" and he added, bending down to liberate Gregory's hand, "these two with the two I was able to miss out make a total of eight strokes instead of twelve.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Dumas/Vaninka/Dumas_VaninkaP2.htm (1131 words)

	Knout Family Crest by The Tree Maker
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	Definition of knout - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Russian knut, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse knūtr knot; akin to Old English cnotta
		Learn more about "knout" and related topics at Britannica.com
		See a map of "knout" in the Visual Thesaurus
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	knout - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Knout : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		KNOUT : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=knout (198 words)

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		Death etc. reveals Pinter's passions with poignant and powerful writings about war, from chilling psychological portraits of those who commit atrocities in the name of a higher power to solemn hymns commemorating the faceless masses that perish unrecognized.
		Erika Knout's career comes to a dangerous head when she embraces the advances of her student in this riveting psychological novel.
		A young man sets out to escort his mother to the safety of her home in the South African countryside but discovers that the violence of war follows wherever he goes.
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	A French Description of Nicholas I
		She was a minor; and her family, which was the most important in the province, as much by the austerity of its morals, as by its immense fortune, and the influence derived from science, merit, and a high official position, demanded the punishment of the seducer.
		It required the most terrible chastisements - - the knout, the whip, the rod, or, at least, Siberia-in a word, nothing was horrible enough in its eyes for so atrocious a case.
		The son-in-law, also, whom she has just lost, and whom she used to love as much as her own sons, was very assiduous in his attendance at these meetings.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/NickI.html (5508 words)

	Vaninka by Alexandre Dumas: VANINKA A
		The first spectators had been attracted by the preparations which they saw had been made in the middle of the courtyard for administering torture with the knout.
		The culprit was the general`s barber, as we have said, and the executioner was merely the coachman, who, being used to the handling of a whip, was raised or degraded, which you will, to the office of executioner every time punishment with the knout was ordered.
		This duty did not deprive him of either the esteem or even the friendship of his comrades, for they well knew that it was his arm alone that punished them and that his heart was not in his work.
	www.classicauthors.net /Dumas/Vaninka (6467 words)

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