nine-pounder

Just after his 11th birthday in June, he caught a nine-pounder.

Health: How Their Stories End 2007

Content, to fight, single-handed, from seven in the morning till eleven at night, with four great armadas and two galleys, though her heaviest gun was but one nine-pounder, and for many hours she had but thirteen men fit for service?

Westward Ho! 2007

Talk about points, there are none like those at the end of a bayonet; and the most powerful of styles is a good rattling “article” from a nine-pounder.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Instead I gave birth to a nine-pounder, which left me with … well, you can do the math.

Holding the World by the Hand Gigi Schweikert 2005

Instead I gave birth to a nine-pounder, which left me with … well, you can do the math.

Holding the World by the Hand Gigi Schweikert 2005

A nine-pounder round shot seared through it, sending up a long fast spray of blood.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

A Sergeant, reckoning escape was impossible, turned and lunged his own bayonet at Harper, who knocked it aside with the seven-barrel gun and then hit the man on the jaw with a fist and the French Sergeant went back as if he had been hit by a nine-pounder ball.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

A canister from a nine-pounder tore into them, twitching files red and ragged, but they closed up, stepped over the dead and dying, and came on with their long bayonets gleaming.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

A gunner spun back from the muzzle of his nine-pounder, struck in the ribs by a French musket ball.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

The gowned men were not monks at all, but friars of the Discalced Carmelite order, two of whom were gravely inspecting a nine-pounder cannon.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003