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three-pounders

three-pounders is the plural of three-pounder.

Meaning of three-pounder

Noun

three-pounder (plural three-pounders)

  1. A cannon of a certain bore size (caliber) that was named for an iron cannonball that weighed three pounds in a certain outdated system of weights and measures.
  2. A cannonball of the type that gave such a cannon its name.

Questions about three-pounders

What is three-pounders the plural of?
Three-pounders is the plural of three-pounder.

Words near three-pounders in the dictionary

  1. three-point turn
  2. three-point turns
  3. three-pointer
  4. three-pointers
  5. three-pounder
  6. three-pounders
  7. three-pronged
  8. three-quarter
  9. three-quarter back
  10. three-quarter backs
  11. three-quarter bathroom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: three-pounders (page history and authors); three-pounder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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