gunner's tailor

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• gunner's daughter

  To kiss the gunner's daughter; to be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors; a mode of punishin...

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• gunner's daughter

  The name of the gun to which boys were married, or lashed, to be punished. ...

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• gunner's handspike

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• gunner's piece

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• gunner's quadrant

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• gunner's yeoman

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