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kiss the gunner's daughter

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  • verb archaic, idiomatic, navy To be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon.

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  • chained_bear commented on the word kiss the gunner's daughter

    "Mackenzie had other punishments, too. He could make an offender kiss the gunner's daughter, for instance, bending him over one of the guns while the bo'sun's mate took a cane to his backside...."

    —Buckner F. Melton, Jr., A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers (New York and London: Free Press, 2003), 71.

    April 26, 2009