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four-pounder

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n.1.a cannon that throws a 4-pound shot.
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Noun1.four-pounder - an artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds
artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance, gun - large but transportable armament


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In the course of a few days they surrounded their dwelling-house and magazines with a picket fence ninety feet square, flanked by two bastions, on which were mounted four four-pounders.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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