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Definition of Four-pounder
1. Noun. An artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Four-pounder
Literary usage of Four-pounder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"... strange pattern ; nineteen hundred and sixty twenty-four pounder fuze plugs ;
five hundred and forty-nine forty- two pounder fuze plugs ; three hundred ..."
2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"With great labour they dragged one six and one four-pounder from Stubb's Bay,
and had them mounted by Saturday night. The English, in the meantime, ..."
3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... one an eighteen, the other a twenty-four pounder.1 THE two following advertisements
lately appeared, one in the Carolina, and the other in the Virginia ..."
4. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers by Whitelaw Reid (1868)
"... and two sixty-four-pounder James) to open fire immediately after Battery Scott.
... four and one-quarter degrees ; for sixty-four-pounder, four degrees. ..."
5. Lew Wallace;: An Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"... troops—Their disposition—The two bridges—General Ricketts—The twenty-four-pounder
howitzer— The fight in the cornfield—Colonel Clendenin. ..."
6. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"... of the twenty- - four pounder five inches eight lines ; the eighteen pounder
five inches one.line ; the twelve ..."
7. Lew Wallace; an Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"LXXIII The doctor's horse—Available troops—Their disposition—The two bridges—General
Ricketts—The twenty-four-pounder howitzer— The fight in the ..."
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