TheVulgarTongue Bot , 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.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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