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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of keelhaul.

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Examples

  • If I hear such again, that man will find himself keelhauled.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • If I hear such again, that man will find himself keelhauled.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • If I hear such again, that man will find himself keelhauled.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • The bilge-sucking scallywag responsible must be found, hung from the yardarm, keelhauled, and then made to walk the plank!

    To Err is Human, To Arr is Pirate 2009

  • Unlike the Bushitler regime where they would have been keelhauled.

    Somali pirates, U.S. crew, Rush Limbaugh, and Barack Obama. Ann Althouse 2009

  • If you feel it's your duty to call Obama a traitor and use salty language in your proposed resolution, ie, suggest the commie be keelhauled, walked off the plank, run up the yardarm, tarred and feathered and run out of Dodge, etc, etc, etc, you may be facing a visit from your friendly Secret Service.

    Republicans have no Clue what Socialism and Communism means 2009

  • The bilge-sucking scallywag responsible must be found, hung from the yardarm, keelhauled, and then made to walk the plank!

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • It's all fun and games, as long as you're not the one being keelhauled.

    Archive 2009-04-17 Book Nerd 2009

  • It makes no sense unless they think that they would have been keelhauled for doing it because the public and the press suspected that their motives for getting rid of qualified people were less than pure.

    Raising Suspicions 2007

  • If you feel it's your duty to call Obama a traitor and use salty language in your proposed resolution, ie, suggest the commie be keelhauled, walked off the plank, run up the yardarm, tarred and feathered and run out of Dodge, etc, etc, etc, you may be facing a visit from your friendly Secret Service.

    Archive 2009-03-15 2009

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