Still others maintain it is of generic Germanic origin, not necessarily Scandinavian, comparing it with the German Knute, Dutch knoet ( both meaning knout ) and with Old Norse knutr, Anglo-Saxon cnotta and English knot.

The expression " under the knout " is used to designate any harsh totalitarianism, and by extension its equivalent in a private context, e. g., a grim patriarch ruling his household ' with an iron rod '.

Emperor Nicholas I abolished the punishment by knout in 1845, and replaced it with the pleti, lashes with three thongs which could end in lead balls.

A variation, known as the great knout, consisted of a handle about long, to which was fastened a flat leather thong about twice the length of the handle, terminating with a large copper or brass ring to which was affixed a strip of hide about broad at the ring, and terminating at the end of in a point.

The suspended victims were whipped with knout and sometimes burned with hot torches.

On 19 June, the weak and ailing tsarevich received twenty-five strokes with the knout, and then, on the 24th, he was subject to fifteen more.

" Punishment with an ordinary knout ", an 18th-century print

Branding tended to be abolished like other judicial mutilations ( with notable exceptions, such as amputation under sharia law ), sooner and more widely than flogging, caning and similar corporal punishments, which normally aim ' only ' to pain and at worst cause stripe scars, although the most severe lashings ( not uncommon in penal colonies ) in terms of dosage and instrument ( such as the proverbial knout ) can even turn out to be lethal.

They were brought onto a scaffold in front of the Twelve Collegia in Saint Petersburg, stripped naked, and flogged with birch rods and the knout on their buttocks.

The Russian knout had different forms.

The majority of whips are designed for use on animals, although whips such as the " cat o ' nine tails " and knout were designed specifically for flagellation of humans as a means of a corporal punishment or torture.

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