"kiss the gunner's daughter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 14, in Redgauntlet",
          "text": "But I was punished, my lad—made to kiss the wench that never speaks but when she scolds, and that's the gunner's daughter, comrade.",
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          "ref": "2002, Wallace Bruce, John Paul Jones: Father of the United States Navy, page 81",
          "text": "\"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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        "To be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon."
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        "(archaic, idiomatic, naval) To be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon."
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