Word: knouts
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: knouts
Definition: Plural of knout; a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners
Morphemes:
Affix: knout
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: 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.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.