plitt
See also: Plitt
English
editEtymology
editFrom Russian плеть (pletʹ, “whip”).
Noun
editplitt (plural plitts)
- (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.