Definition of "keelhaul" []

• Nautical To discipline by dragging under the keel of a ship. (verb-transitive)
• To rebuke harshly. (verb-transitive)

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• "A keelhaul drop meant sliding down a cable to the ground."
• "She had only a few hours to learn how to use a diving apparatus, how to keelhaul drop onto solid stone, and how to handle acid-spitting barnacles!"
• "She nodded, wishing that it was something piffling like a keelhaul drop that had her jittery."