However, this etymology is challenged, and may come instead from the custom of punishing a prisoner by or him while he is strapped to a barrel; there is no documentary evidence it was actually used specifically as a nautical phrase.
Preliminary results of that genetic study concluded that cats were also carried on trading ships to control rodents, and that practice was adopted by traders from other nations, including in northern Germany around the 8th to 11th centuries.
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This prompted sailors, who were in danger from sudden storms and lightning, to claim his prayers.