We don't have synonyms for knouts yet — it may be a rare, specialized, newly coined, or misspelled word. The closest thesaurus entries we have are knout, knots and snouts.
(n) :
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.
(n) :
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.