knout

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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

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

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

It is a singularity of the Russian laws that the number of blows decreed for the knout is always uneven.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

This seems a strange statement to make regarding the land of the knout!

From A Short History of Russia by Parmele, Mary Platt