knout in Chinese
knout in Chinese is 皮鞭 — knout means 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.
knout in Chinese
皮鞭
Pronounced: pí biān
A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.
What does "knout" mean?
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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.
"The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep."
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- The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep.
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What is "knout" in Chinese?
"knout" in Chinese is 皮鞭. knout means: 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.
How do you pronounce 皮鞭?
"knout" in Chinese is 皮鞭, pronounced "pí biān".
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