Keelhauling (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

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.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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