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单词 keelhaul
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keelhaulv.

Brit. /ˈkiːlhɔːl/, U.S. /ˈkilˌhɔl/, /ˈkilˌhɑl/
Forms: Also 1600s–1800s -hale, 1700s–1800s -hawl.
Etymology: < Dutch kielhalen (with the elements englished as keel, haul); compare also German kielholen, Danish kjølhale, Swedish kölhala, apparently all from Dutch.Dutch kielhalen occurs in an ordinance of 1629; the punishment itself is mentioned, in an ordinance of 1560, as onder den kiele deurstricken; abolished in Holland in 1853.
transitive. To haul (a person) under the keel of a ship, either by lowering him on one side and hauling him across to the other side, or, in the case of smaller vessels, lowering him at the bows and drawing him along under the keel to the stern.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > keelhaul
keelhaul1666
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 4 To punish offendors..as ducking at Yards arme, hawling vnder the Keele.]
1666 London Gaz. No. 112/3 He..caused Blake to be loaded with Chains..and..ordered him to be three times Keel-haled (as they [the Dutch] call it).
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxviii. 217 He ought to be keel-hawled for his presumption.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Cale Donner la grand Cale, to keel-haul; a punishment peculiar to the Dutch.
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. 203 If I catch any more on board, I'll keelhale them.
1882 Standard 11 Sept. 5/5 Two officers of Arabi's army..had been keel-hauled.

Derivatives

ˈkeelhauling n. the action of drawing under the keel; the fact of being keelhauled.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > keelhauling
keel-drawing1700
keel-raking1706
keelhauling1753
keelhaul1831
1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting 15 Some sorts of curious marine discipline, as the cat-of-nine-tails, keel-hawling, and the like.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 366 Even previous to 1797 the old punishment of ‘keel-hauling’, for slight offences, had entirely gone out.
ˈkeelhaul n. an act of keelhauling.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > keelhauling
keel-drawing1700
keel-raking1706
keelhauling1753
keelhaul1831
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son (1890) 450 I was about to treat him with a keelhale.
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