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ten-pounders

n. (ten-pounder English)

Usage examples of "ten-pounders".

Fish in gleaming plenty: tarpon, cavallies, mullets, snappers, yellowtails, old-maids, ten-pounders (thought rather coarse, said Square, though nourishing), and of course great heaps of oysters.

Then Portland took my rod and caught some ten-pounders, and my spoon was carried away by an unknown leviathan.