Usually means: Punishment dragging under ship's keel.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word keelhaul:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. keelhaul: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. keelhaul: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keelhaul: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. keelhaul: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Keelhaul, keelhaul: Wordnik
  6. keelhaul: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. keelhaul: Wiktionary
  8. keelhaul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. keelhaul: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. keelhaul: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Keelhaul, keelhaul: Dictionary.com
  12. Keelhaul (band), Keelhaul: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Keelhaul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. keelhaul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Keelhaul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. keelhaul: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. keelhaul: Free Dictionary
  18. keelhaul: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. keelhaul: Dictionary/thesaurus

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keelhaul: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keelhaul: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See keelhauled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (keelhaul)

verb:  (transitive, nautical) To punish by dragging under the keel of a ship with the intent of causing painful injuries.
verb:  (transitive) To rebuke harshly.

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