Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
pounder , 1 and 2. - noun Something that weighs ten pounds.
- noun The big-eyed herring, Elops saurus. See cut under
Elops .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large oceanic fish (
Elops saurus ) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
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- noun Alternative form of
tenpounder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller
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Examples
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Any bull trout you can get away with calling a ten-pounder in front of witnesses is a real nice one and well within what the fisheries types call the “typical maximum-size range.”
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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Any bull trout you can get away with calling a ten-pounder in front of witnesses is a real nice one and well within what the fisheries types call the “typical maximum-size range.”
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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Any bull trout you can get away with calling a ten-pounder in front of witnesses is a real nice one and well within what the fisheries types call the “typical maximum-size range.”
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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Any bull trout you can get away with calling a ten-pounder in front of witnesses is a real nice one and well within what the fisheries types call the “typical maximum-size range.”
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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“You give birth to a ten-pounder, then you can talk.”
Promise Me Richard Paul Evans 2010
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If the estimates had been correct, I should have had at least one ten-pounder.
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If the estimates had been correct, I should have had at least one ten-pounder.
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British Army had no mountain guns except the Indian ten-pounder, which was serviceable only against bows and arrows.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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More than once we were toppled from our wooden rafts, in Goose Pond or Stump Pond, in fighting what turned out to be an eight-or ten-pounder.
Stillwater William F. Weld 2002
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More than once we were toppled from our wooden rafts, in Goose Pond or Stump Pond, in fighting what turned out to be an eight-or ten-pounder.
Stillwater William F. Weld 2002
chained_bear commented on the word ten-pounder
Slang (archaic?) for a certain kind of fish. Usage on tarpon.
March 18, 2008