KEEL-HAULING

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 17

A nautical punishment practised chiefly in the Dutch navy, by which the culprit is let down on one side of the ship, and after pa ing under the keel is hauled up on the other. The punishment was formerly not altogether unknown in the British navy; but it is not now i esorted to. [s. 644]