tennern.
/ˈtɛnə/, U.S. /ˈtɛnər/ colloquial.
A term applied to a number or amount of ten; spec.
a. A ten-pound note; in U.S. a ten-dollar bill.
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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
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S. > ten-dollar bill
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1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 8 121 The races..he went to as a matter of course, though..he never betted at them beyond a ‘tenner’.
1848 Sessions Papers 7 Mar. 847 ‘I was concerned in that affair of Covill's, for which I had a tenner out.’.. ‘Oh, did they give you 10l?’.. I understood by a tenner, a 10l.-note.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. iii. 63 ‘No money?’ ‘Not much—perhaps a ten'ner.’
1884 G. Allen Philistia III. 218 I had in my purse..five tenners—Bank of England ten-pound notes, you know.
1887 W. Black Sabina Zembra xxi. 208 You might make the fiver a tenner.
1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira xvi At the rate of eight dollars a column and a tenner for the ‘beat’.
b. A period of ten years.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > decade
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decennium1685
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decennial1889
1866 Morning Star 19 Dec. I will tell the truth, or else I shall get a ‘tenner’ (ten years' penal servitude).
1904 Daily News 7 Nov. 9 [He] has been chief magistrate..for the past nine years uninterruptedly, and..the Corporation has just asked him to extend it and make a ‘tenner’ of it.
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