Brewer's: Gunner

Kissing the gunner's daughter. Being flogged on board ship. At one time boys in the Royal Navy who were to be flogged were first tied to the breech of a cannon.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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