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Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen; [1] "to drag along the keel") is a form of punishment and potential execution once meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel , either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ...
Keelhauling, a form of corporal punishment used against sailors; Operation Keelhaul, the repatriation of Russian prisoners of war after World War II; Keelhaul (band), American band from Ohio; Keel-Haul (G.I. Joe), a character in the fictional G.I. Joe universe
Operation Keelhaul was a forced repatriation of Soviet citizens and members of the Soviet Army in the West to the Soviet Union (although it often included former soldiers of the Russian Empire or Russian Republic, who did not have Soviet citizenship) after World War II.
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In 1769, a mutineer, George Wood, confessed to his chaplain at London's Newgate Prison that he and his fellow mutineers had sent their officers to walk the plank. [3] Author Douglas Botting, in describing the account, characterized it as an "alleged confession" and an "obscure account [...] which may or may not be true, and in any case had nothing to do with pirates".
Severe historical execution methods include the breaking wheel, hanged, drawn and quartered, mazzatello (beating the head with a mallet or mace), boiling to death, death by burning, execution by drowning, feeding alive to predatory animals, death by starvation, immurement, flaying, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing, execution by ...
The word "keel" comes from Old English cēol, Old Norse kjóll, = "ship" or "keel".It has the distinction of being regarded by some scholars as the first word in the English language recorded in writing, having been recorded by Gildas in his 6th century Latin work De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, under the spelling cyulae (he was referring to the three ships that the Saxons first arrived in).
If keelhauling has an etymological background of "along the keel", there's no reason to be surprised the literal meaning is something a little different, "across the ...