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..
to be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon
Silbentrennung
to be flogged or beat·en while restrained over a Can·non