Gunner’s Daughter (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Gunner’s Daughter

To kiss the gunner’s daughter; to be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors; a mode of punishing boys on board a ship of war.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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