ten-poundern.
/ˌtɛnˈpaʊndə/ 1.
a. A thing (e.g. a ball, a fish) weighing ten pounds; spec. a fish, Elops saurus, about three feet long, inhabiting the warmer parts of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; also called Big-eyed Herring.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Elopiformes > member of family Elopidae (ten-pounder)
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saury1771
mackerel pike1890
ladyfish1971
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. ii. 71 Tenpounders are shaped like Mullets, but are so full of very small stiff Bones..that you can hardly eat them.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 407 The ‘Big-eyed Herring’ or ‘Ten-pounder’, Elops saurus.
b. A cannon throwing a ten-pound shot.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by weight of shot > of specific weight of shot
fifteen-pounder1684
four-pounder1684
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three-pounder1684
ten-pounder1695
nine-pounder1713
seven-pounder1762
long nine1780
half-pounder1800
twelve-pounder1801
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1695 London Gaz. No. 3112/3 69 Pieces of Cannon,..viz... 9 ten Pounders.
2. Something of the value of, or rated at, ten pounds.
a. A ten-pound note.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > English banknotes > [noun] > ten-pound note
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ten-pounder1755
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cock and hen1934
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Pounder A note or bill is called a twenty pounder or ten pounder.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iv. 104 I pocketed the little donation—it was a ten-pounder.
1844 Ainsworth's Mag. 6 354 I feared I should very soon be obliged to change..my ten-pounder.
1888 C. M. Yonge Our New Mistress xii. 109 He took it from me as if I were paying him his wages, and..said..a crisp ten-pounder was a handier thing to drag about than a puling woman.
b. A voter in a borough who was enfranchised in virtue of occupying property of the annual value of ten pounds.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > by specific qualification
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1833 R. Southey Let. 13 Jan. in J. Aitken Eng. Lett. of XIX Century (1946) 147 The ten-pounders have sent just such members as might have been expected to Parldemonium from the great manufacturing towns.
1834 Oxford Univ. Mag. I. 46 No candidate would venture to present himself before a body of ten-pounders.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xvii. 148 There were several old boroughs where the freemen still outnumbered the ten-pounders.
Derivatives
ten-ˈpoundery n. the body of ten-pound householders.Apparently an isolated use.
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1840 Fraser's Mag. 21 237 He was hanged to oblige the tenpoundery of the day.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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