Usually means: Large fish, often sport-caught.
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  1. ten-pounder: Wordnik
  2. ten-pounder: Wiktionary
  3. Ten-pounder, ten-pounder: Dictionary.com
  4. Ten-pounder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. ten-pounder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Ten-pounder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. ten-pounder: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Ten-pounder: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Ten-pounder: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ten-pounder)

noun:  A cannon of a certain bore size (caliber) that was named for an iron cannonball that weighed ten pounds in a certain outdated system of weights and measures.
noun:  A cannonball of the type that gave such a cannon its name.
noun:  Alternative form of tenpounder (“ladyfish”) [The ladyfish (Elops saurus).]

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