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keelhauling en · NOUN

From keelhaul + -ing.

The act by which a person is keelhauled.
- ‘We was a-talkin’ of keel-hauling,’ answered Morgan. / ‘Keel-hauling, was you? And a mighty suitable thing, too, and you may lay to that. Get back to your place for a lubber, Tom.’ 1883 November 14, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London: Cassell and Company, →OCLC:
- The British, French and Dutch navies also practiced a grimmer form of choking. Sailors hung the victim from the lowest beam (the yardarm) of the main mast on one side of the ship and then, using pulleys, dragged him with ropes beneath the ship's keel to the other side of the long beam. This was called “keelhauling.” Keelhauling was not some ancient nautical torture. It originated with the modern navy. […] The British abolished keelhauling in 1720 and the French and Dutch in 1750. The practice continued unofficially for some years afterward, but there are no British records of keelhauling after 1770, and the last Dutch record was in 1806. 2007, Darius Rejali, “Choking”, in Torture and Democracy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 282:
(broadly, obsolete, slang) A thorough thrashing or mauling; rough treatment.

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
keelhaulings	Number=Plur		lexicographic

he עֹנֶשׁ גְּרִירָה מִתַחַת לַשִׁדְרִית (naval punishment)

From keelhaul + -ing.

(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of keelhaul.
form of keelhaul