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Meaning: (archaic,idiomatic,naval)To befloggedorbeatenwhilerestrainedover acannon.1824,Sir Walter Scott, chapter 14, inRedgauntlet:But I was punished, my lad—made tokissthe wench that never speaks but when she scolds, and that'sthe gunner's daughter, comrade.2002, Wallace Bruce,John Paul Jones: Father of the United States Navy,→ISBN,page81:"No," replied Bosun Thorpe, "for any breaches of discipline by boy seamen are dealt within by making him, in naval jargon, ‘kiss the gunner's daughter’. . . . he bends over one of the guns; then he is lashed across the backside."
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