kiss the gunner's daughter

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Definition von kiss the gunner's daughter im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

To be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon

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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kiss the gunner's daugh·ter