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KEELHAULING

Definition: KEELHAULING

KEELHAULING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Keelhaul

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: KEELHAULING

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Slang in 1811

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. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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Specialty Definition: Keelhauling

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Keelhauling was a form of corporal punishment meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a rope looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard, and then dragged under the keel and up the other side. Alternatively the sailor was dragged from bow to stern. Keelhauling was generally a death sentence since it could take as long as three minutes, and perhaps longer, to walk the ropes all the way back to the stern. Often the ropes caught and dragged on barnacles on the ship's hull: the barnacles ripped the victim's clothing and skin to shreds as he was dragged along.

Keelhauling was legislated as a punishment only by governments in the Netherlands, although the English navy also practiced the punishment. The earliest official mention of keelhauling is a Dutch ordinance of 1560: the practice was not formally abolished until 1853.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Keelhauling."

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Crosswords: KEELHAULING

Specialty definitions using "KEELHAULING": KEELHAULING. (references)
Etymologies containing "KEELHAULING": Keelhaul. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: KEELHAULING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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keelhauling

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Anagrams: KEELHAULING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-i-k-l-l-n-u"

-1 letter: keelhaling.

-3 letters: aguelike, glenlike, gluelike, keelhaul.

-4 letters: eugenia, euglena, galilee, gallein, hauling, healing, heeling, helling, henlike, hulking, hulling, keeling, kleagle, leaking, leglike, ligulae, lineage, linguae, lingual, linkage, nilghau, unagile, unalike.

-5 letters: alkene, alkine, allege, genial, guinea, haeing, haling, hangul, hankie, inhale, inhaul, kiaugh, lagune, laking, langue, league, lienal, ligula, ligule, linage, lineal, lingua, lungee.

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Alternative Orthography: KEELHAULING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 45 45 4C 48 41 55 4C 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0045 0045 004C 0048 0041 0055 004C 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams 		5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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