forty-pounder

Then it occurs to you if you can handle a twenty-pounder, you should be able to handle a forty-pounder, or even a fifty-pounder.

Another Fine Myth Asprin, Robert 1978

On one occasion a forty-pounder shell struck a transport wagon and exploded, cutting off the native driver's leg as he sat upon the box.

From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers

Soon after 4: 30 p.m. the enemy appeared on Impati, and at once opened fire with a big gun, probably a forty-pounder.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

We had to travel as light as possible, and all we could bring were forty-pounder tents, which correspond to the

War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt 1916

They came to the glacis of Fort Keeling, and sat down in a nook sheltered from the wind under the tarred throat of a forty-pounder cannon.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege gun, while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind.

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

I secured one, and it turned out to be part of a huge forty-pounder siege-gun shell.

In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896

Then the big guns came by, and I saw Two Tails and two other elephants harnessed in line to a forty-pounder siege-gun while twenty yoke of oxen walked behind.

The Jungle Book. 1893

"He'll catch one, Tavvy, a forty-pounder, eh?" cried Kenneth, giving the forester a merry look.

Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870

I caught a forty-pounder last time I tried, and a big fight too.

Glyn Severn's Schooldays George Manville Fenn 1870