хлыст — meaning in English
khlyst
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English meaning
- knout 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.
- lash noun A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- switch noun A device used to turn an electrical circuit on or off.
- whip noun A flexible rod or braided cord, often of leather, used to strike an animal or person, or to make a sharp cracking noise.
Senses
хлыст is used for these senses in English:
- horsewhip A whip for use on horses.
- knout 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.
- lash The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- riding crop A horsewhip, short whip used to goad a mount.
- switch A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
- whip A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
lash — full definition
- noun A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- noun A strike delivered with a whip, or the flexible cord of a whip itself.
- verb To hit hard with a whip or something similarly flexible.
- verb To tie something down tightly with rope or cord.
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