"knouter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1890, The Judge - Volume 18, page 334",
          "text": "Czar — \"Have you fastened the alarm telling of the approach of strangers thirty miles away on each door?\" Attendant — \" Yes, blessed knouter.",
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          "ref": "1895, Alexandre Dumas, La Marquise de Brinvilliers. Vaninka. La Constantin, page 111",
          "text": "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 out after the first glass of spirits that the operator drank to the health of his patient.",
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          "ref": "1896, Henri Rochefort, Ernest W. Smith, The Adventures of My Life - Volume 2, page 190",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1924, Richar Connell, The Most Dangerous Game",
          "text": "lvan once had the honour of serving as official knouter to the Great White Tsar, and he has his own ideas of sport.",
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