six-pounder

My question is to you, Why is it called a six-pounder, and so, why does it have that name???

This is for the history buffs!!!!! 2009

And Isaac Davis, and John Young, and others of their waywardly adventurous ilk, with six-pounder brass carronades from the captured Iphigenia and Fair American, had destroyed the war canoes and shattered the morale of the King of Lakanaii's land-fighters, receiving duly in return from Kamehameha, according to agreement:

SHIN-BONES 2010

A party of-coolies went by, dragging a cart piled with six-pounder cartridges, and I took the opportunity to remark to the booth-wallah:

Fiancée 2010

“Sharárif” plur. of Shurráfah = crenelles or battlements; mostly trefoil-shaped; remparts coquets which a six-pounder would crumble.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

In front of the Residency there is a six-pounder flanked by two piles of shot.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Here my wife and daughter sat down on a small brass cannon, seemingly a six-pounder, which stood on a very dilapidated carriage; from the appearance of the gun, which was of an ancient form, and very much battered, and that of the carriage, I had little doubt that both had been in the castle at the time of the siege.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

It called for a new tank armed with a six-pounder main gun as well as its standard machine guns.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

He decided to put a company of the Dublin Fusiliers and a company of the Durban Light Infantry into an armoured train of six trucks, and add a small six-pounder naval gun with some sailors landed from H.M.S. Terrible, together with a break-down gang, and to send this considerable portion of his force out to reconnoitre towards Colenso.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

He decided to put a company of the Dublin Fusiliers and a company of the Durban Light Infantry into an armoured train of six trucks, and add a small six-pounder naval gun with some sailors landed from H.M.S. Terrible, together with a break-down gang, and to send this considerable portion of his force out to reconnoitre towards Colenso.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

The Galla Bedouins would oppose an invader with a strong force of spearmen, the approaches to the city are difficult and dangerous, but it is commanded from the north and west, and the walls would crumble at the touch of a six-pounder.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003