twelve-pounder (English, noun)
expansion: twelve-pounder (plural twelve-pounders)
Senses:
glosses: A cannon of a certain bore size (caliber) that was named for an iron cannonball that weighed twelve pounds in a certain outdated system of weights and measures.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: twelve-pounders
tags: plural