Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

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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