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• Ten-pounder

  ·noun A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used ...

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• Pounder

  ·noun An instrument used for pounding; a pestle. II. Pounder ·noun One who, or that which, pounds, ...

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• pounder

  A denomination applied to guns according to the weight of the shot they carry; at present everything...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Ten

  ·adj One more than nine; twice five. II. Ten ·noun A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X....

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• Ten-o'clock

  ·noun A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. ·see under <<Star>>. ...

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• Ten-strike

  ·noun Any quick, decisive stroke or act. II. Ten-strike ·noun A knocking down of all ten pins at on...

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• ten toes

  See bayard of ten toes. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Ten Commandments

  The popular name in this, as in so many instances,is not that of Scripture. There we have the "TEN W...

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• Ten Bell Court

  South out of Snow Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Site now covered by Hol...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• one in ten

  A parson: an allusion to his tithes. ...

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• the upper ten thousand

  and contracted, THE UPPER TEN. The aristocracy; the upper circles of our large cities. A phrase inve...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Plagues, The Ten

  The occasion on which the plagues were sent is described in Exod 3-12. • The plague of blood.When M...

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• bayard of ten toes

  To ride bayard of ten toes, is to walk on foot. Bayard was a horse famous in old romances, ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ten in the hundred

  An usurer; more than five in the hundred being deemed usurious interest. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose