knout
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Noun — A whip with several leather tails, once infamously used for punishment in Russia under the tsars; a harsher version had metal weights fixed to each tail.
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Etymology
It reached English via French knout, from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr ("knot in a cord"). It is a doublet of knot, node, and nodus.
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