knout

As verbs the difference between knout and knot

is that knout is to flog or beat with a knout while knot is (knyta).

As a noun knout

is 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.

As nouns the difference between knout and knut

is that knout is 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 while knut is (archaic|informal|edwardian) an idle upper-class man-about-town[http://edwardianpromenadecom/resources/a-glossary-of-slang/#k edwardian slang terms].

As a verb knout

is to flog or beat with a knout.

As nouns the difference between snout and knout

is that snout is the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs while knout is 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.

As verbs the difference between snout and knout

is that snout is to furnish with a nozzle or point while knout is to flog or beat with a knout.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and knout

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while knout is 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.

As a verb knout is

to flog or beat with a knout.