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Definition of Keelhauling
1. keelhaul [v] - See also: keelhaul
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keelhauling
Literary usage of Keelhauling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"The story opens in 1699, and Marryat says as to keelhauling : " This ...
Marryat describes keelhauling in small ore-and-aft vessels and that in large and ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1837)
"The word has passed into common use, and many of our readers who use the term
keelhauling without any detinue notion of its meaning', ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1836)
"What a delightful morning for a keelhauling! ! This ingenious process, which,
... In the days of keelhauling, the bottoms of vessels were not coppered, ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"keelhauling, a punishment in use in the navy during the 17th and 18th ...
keelhauling was practised on an Egyptian corvette so recently as August 1882. ..."
5. London Letters: And Some Others by George Washburn Smalley (1890)
"Re asked about punishments, and when he was told of keelhauling, ... But keelhauling
is abolished. When the Emperor spoke to those not of his suite or race. ..."
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