plitt

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noun

An instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in Russia.

OriginRussian плеть →
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Meanings

plitt1

nounplitt (plural plitts)

plural plitts

  1. historicalAn instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in Russia.

    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.

    1846, Charles Frederick Henningsen, Revelations of Russia in 1846

Plitt2

proper nounPlitt (plural Plitts)

plural Plitts

  1. A surname.

Origin

  1. Russianплеть“whip”
  2. Englishplitt

From Russian плеть (pletʹ, “whip”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plitt,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plitt.

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