The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ten-pounder \Ten"-pound`er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large oceanic fish ( Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
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n. (alternative form of tenpounder English)
Usage examples of "ten-pounder".
While the world still was reeling and his hammock was swaying as if slung on board a storm-lashed ship at sea, one of the larger cannoneither the ten-pounder demiculverin or one of the three eight-pounder sakersroared close by, while the guard-bugler began to wind his horn in an off-key rendition of first the Assembly and then the Call to Arms.
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.