knout
Example Sentences
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The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moscow's long-suffering moviegoers glowed vindictively: the managers of the city's neighborhood moviehouses were at last writhing under the official knout.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new, obnoxiously corporate-modeled, self-franchising Guggenheim may run on laptops, but what it really needs is an editorial pencil -- if not a knout.
From Time Magazine Archive
Others he saved from the knout, and others from banishment.
From Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott
When Jason Philip came back from the inn, he said: “To believe that people can be ruled without the knout is a fatal delusion.”
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
