knouter

Noun

1. One who wields a knout, especially a Russian official who uses it to administer punishment.
   • Czar — "Have you fastened the alarm telling of the approach of strangers thirty miles away on each door?" Attendant — " Yes, blessed knouter. - 1890, The Judge - Volume 18, page 334:
   • It is true that the first hour after the punishment was generally so full of suffering that the knouted was sometimes unjust to the knouter, but this feeling seldom out lasted the evening, and it was rare when it held...
   • The hideous features of the knouter pleaded in favour of the young heroine, who, amid a scene of general enthusiasm, was acquitted without hesitation on the part of the jury. - 1896, Henri Rochefort, Ernest W. Smith,...