Gunner.

Kissing the gunner’s daughter. Being flogged on board ship. At one time boys in the Royal Navy who were to be flogged were first tied to the breech of a cannon.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Gulnare
Gummed
Gumption
Gun
Gun
Gun Cotton
Gun Money
Gun Room
Guns
Gunga [pronounce Gun-jah]
Gunner
Gunpowder Plot
Gunter’s Chain
Günther
Gurgoils
Gurme
Gurney Light
Guthlac (St.)
Guthrum
Guttapercha
Gutter