keel-haul

Yes, the scandal has gained airplay - but only because of a vacuum in the news and the desperation of the MSM to find something to keel-haul Palin with if they can't poison their readers' perceptions of her from the get-go, the MSM knows full well that this will be a game-changer, and they're not willing to let that happen.

"Troopergate" requires a "disambiguation" page in Wikipedia. Ann Althouse 2008

My crew is comprised of writers and art directors designers, and my designers would keel-haul me if I took away their two-monitor rigs.

Size Zounts 2006

Or perhaps they could sign up with the British Navy and patrol the waters of the Atlantic looking for scalliwags to keel-haul.

MMOG Nation » The Setting is the Story II 2004

Who flog men and keel-haul them, and starve them to the bone.

Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various

"Gib," said Captain Scraggs earnestly, "I'll keel-haul and skull-drag the man that says you ain't got a great head."

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

The Golden Eagle ten minutes later swooped to earth at a spot not twenty yards from her original landing place and a few moments later the boys were shaking hands and executing a sort of war dance about Captain Barrington and Captain Hazzard, while Ben Stubbs was imploring some one to "shiver his timbers" or "carry away his top-sails" or "keel-haul him" or something to relieve his feelings.

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

"Hurray! hurray!" he shouted, "douse my topsails and keel-haul my main-jibboom, if that ain't the best sight I've seen for a long time."

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

"Get your guns laid, and if any one of you dares to pull a trigger till I give the word, I'll keel-haul him."

Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859

Who flog men and keel-haul them, and starve them to the bone.

Andromeda and Other Poems Charles Kingsley 1847

It was just in the position that Smallbones lay on the forecastle of the cutter on that day morning, when he was about to keel-haul him, and the corporal, in his state of mental and bodily depression, was certain that it was the ghost of the poor lad whom he had so often tortured.

Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend Frederick Marryat 1820