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Definition of KeelheulingKeelhauling, a naval punishment of the 17th and 18th centuries;
consisted in dropping the victim into the sea from one yardarm, hauling
him under the keel and up to the yardarm on the other side; is now a term
for a severe rebuke.
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KEELHAULING. A punishment in use among the Dutch
seamen, in which, for certain offences, the delinquent is drawn once, or oftener, under the ship's keel: ludicrously defined, undergoing a great hard-ship. - The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
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