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keelhale

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keel⋅haul

  [keel-hawl]
Use keelhale in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. Nautical. to haul (an offender) under the bottom of a ship and up on the other side as a punishment.
2. to rebuke severely.
Also, keel⋅hale  [keel-heyl] .
Also called keel⋅drag  [keel-drag] , keel⋅rake  [keel-reyk] .

Origin:
1660–70; < D kielhalen. See keel 1 , haul
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