What is the meaning of KEEL HAUL. Phrases containing KEEL HAUL
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– A grisly death indeed. The Pirate is tied by a rope at the front of the ship at full sail. He is then kicked off and made to drag along the keel, or bottom spine of the ship, usually through the sharp barnacles clinging to the hull. It would act like a cheese grater. “Ye’ll be Keel Hauled!†would strike terror into any pirate.
Keep cave is British school slang for keep watch, lookout.
Keep cool is slang for to keep one's composure, stay calm.
Keek is Scottish slang for excrement.
adj Great; splendid; fine: What a keen day!
John Peel is London Cockney rhyming slang for eel.
Keep dog−eye is British slang for to keep a look out.
Heel is American slang for a contemptible person.
Keep shtoom is slang for keep quiet; don't tell.
Keen is American and Canadian slang for very good.
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superl.
Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.
v. t.
To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.
v. t.
To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
n.
The after end of a ship's keel.
v. t.
To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders.
superl.
Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
v. i.
To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
n.
Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] "So have I seel".
n.
A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
n.
An eel.
n.
Time; season; as, hay seel.
superl.
Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.
v. t.
To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
superl.
Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features.
v. i.
To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
superl.
Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
v. i.
To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach.
n.
The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
n.
Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.
n.
A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.
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