keelhaul: Word of the day for December 17, 2016
Word of the day is keelhaul : (transitive, nautical) To punish by dragging under the keel of a ship. (transitive) To rebuke harshly. To mark Koninkrijksdag (Kingdom Day; 15 December), which commemorates the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we are featuring a series of words of Dutch origin.
