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Definition of Tenners
1. tenner [n] - See also: tenner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenners
Literary usage of Tenners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875)
"But only let him consider how great the relief would be to his conscience were
he to send his fivers or his tenners (or any other sums, large or small) to ..."
2. Electric Furnaces: The Production of Heat from Electrical Energy and the by Wilhelm Borchers (1908)
"tenners' Arc Furnace. — tenners' furnace 1 was also equipped with a portable
hearth which, however, in contrast to that of the Will- son Aluminium Company, ..."
3. Electric Furnaces: The Production of Heat from Electrical Energy and the by Wilhelm Borchers (1908)
"... portion of the charge going back again into one of the furnaces. A single
furnace of this system is shown in Fig. 146. tenners' Arc Furnace.—tenners' ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-four Years After by Richard Henry Dana (1909)
"Between the tropics there is a slight haziness, like a thin gauze, drawn over
oie son, •"•• •_ without obstructing or obscuring the fight, tenners the heat ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"Such most part are our ordinary suitors, tenners, clients, new stirs every day,
mistakes, errors, cavils, and at this present, as I have heard in some one ..."
6. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"Surely neither of the tenners would advertise the attempted crime of their relative
in this way. But who else was there ? The more he thought about it, ..."
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