plitt

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English

Etymology

From Russian плеть (pletʹ, whip).

Noun

plitt (plural plitts)

  1. (historical) An instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in Russia.
    • 1846, Charles Frederick Henningsen, Revelations of Russia in 1846:
      Not a few of these carry with them the germ of inevitable death, their frames being enfeebled, and their constitutions broken by having undergone the cruel sentence of the plitt.