[f. prec.] trans. To flog or punish with the knout.
1772–84. Cook, Voy. (1790), VI. 2162. At 16 years of age he was knowted, had his nose slit, and was banished to Siberia.
1863. Sala, Murderous Ischoostchik, 91. One was knouted to death only the other day, at the top of the Nevski, for the murder of a German commercial traveller.
Hence Knouted ppl. a., Knouting vbl. sb.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., II. 644. Hast thou found … No repose, Russia, for knouted Poles?
1887. Daily News, 8 Oct., 6/1. Happily M. Verestschagin, who paints a Russian hanging, did not paint a Russian knouting.
