Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel considered with reference to her tonnage: used in composition: as, a ten-tonner; a thousand- tonner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun in combination A vehicle or other object having a specified
tonnage , or weighing a specified number oftons
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Examples
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The tonner was a distinguished preacher of Massachusetts.
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We get to the railway yard and there are six (twenty tonner) trucks, so Shorty and I get on a truck together and get stuck into it.
Work Camp 11022 GW 2010
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The entry is tagged under Taylor Lautner, tonner dolls.
Twilight Lexicon » Taylor Lautner Now a Jacob Tonner Doll 2010
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Iohannes ist der, dem Cristus sin hailge stat den rainen lylyen als ainem sun dem tonner vss liebly hat den frid enpfolchen.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The proposed size of the MSPV 37 - 42 meters sounds very much like an under-1000 tonner to me.
Archive 2009-07-01 Edstock 2009
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The proposed size of the MSPV 37 - 42 meters sounds very much like an under-1000 tonner to me.
Ships! We will have ships! Many ships... Dave 2009
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China is going to go from building no aircraft carriers currently it is fiddling around with an uncompleted ex-Russian one to a 93,000 tonner?
China to Build Supercarrier, Taiwan unveils upgraded IDF Michael Turton 2007
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As it sways precariously beneath the five-tonner, a small priesthood of caretakers will guide it to a washbasin and gently remove the ravages of worship and travel.
Roy and His Rock 2005
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As it sways precariously beneath the five-tonner, a small priesthood of caretakers will guide it to a washbasin and gently remove the ravages of worship and travel.
Roy and His Rock 2005
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As it sways precariously beneath the five-tonner, a small priesthood of caretakers will guide it to a washbasin and gently remove the ravages of worship and travel.
Roy and His Rock 2005
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