Definition
To be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon.
In Context
- "But I was punished, my lad—made to kiss the wench that never speaks but when she scolds, and that's the gunner's daughter, comrade."
- ""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.""
Also Said As
- marry the gunner's daughter