Keelhauling

lllustration from donavoanbixley.com 

Keelhauling was a really nasty punishment inflicted on sailors where they would be tied to a rope and dragged under the keel of the ship.

But it can be also be used in metaphorically to mean severely reprimanded, for example: "Gee Mom really gave little Teddy a keelhauling for not taking the trash out."