ten-pounder (English, noun)
expansion: ten-pounder (plural ten-pounders)
Senses:
glosses: Alternative form of tenpounder (“ladyfish”).
tags: alt-of
alternative
glosses: A cannon of a certain bore size (caliber) that was named for an iron cannonball that weighed ten pounds in a certain outdated system of weights and measures.
glosses: A cannonball of the type that gave such a cannon its name.
Forms:
form: ten-pounders
tags: plural