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- noun Plural form of
ten-pounder .
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Examples
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She carried a long eighteen-pounder, two ten-pounders, and ten six-pounders, and she sailed like a witch.
CHAPTER XXVII 2010
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Its Talbots, specially geared for heavy work, carried two ten-pounders with
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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ThePatty Cake got half a limit yesterday—couple of ten-pounders.
Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992
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ThePatty Cake got half a limit yesterday—couple of ten-pounders.
Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992
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The score in detail runs something like this -- it is only interesting to those concerned: 15, 11-1/2, 12, 10, 9-3/4, 8, and so forth; as I have said, nothing under six pounds, and three ten-pounders.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Then came "dogs" of all sizes from "garter-dogs," or "shoe-strings," a foot long, to full-grown ten-pounders of about a yard.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman
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The poorest class of householders in towns in 1886 are probably as intelligent and competent as were the ten-pounders of 1832.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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Then Portland took my rod, and caught some ten-pounders, and my spoon was carried away by an unknown leviathan.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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The exponents of the ten-pounders, who, in their smug complacency, believed their Constitution and government to be not only now the best on earth but the best that had ever existed, 50 criticised the North freely in a tone of flippant and contemptuous serenity, 51 highly irritating to a people engaged in a life-and-death struggle.
Chapter II 1917
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She carried a long eighteen-pounder, two ten-pounders, and ten six-pounders, and she sailed like a witch.
Chapter 27 1914
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