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tonner|ˈtʌnə(r)|
[f. ton1 + -er1: cf. pounder n.4]
In comb. with prefixed numeral: a vessel of (so many) tons burden; e.g. forty-tonner, a vessel of forty tons burden: see ton1 2. Also, a lorry of (so many) tons weight.
1851A. O. Hall Manhattaner in New Orleans 177 A seven hundred tonner,..full of Dutch emigrants. 1883Harper's Mag. Aug. 443/1 The forty-tonners..carried off most of the prizes. 1891E. Kinglake Australian at H. 78 There is generally a race of some description, either for forty tonners, ten tonners, half-deckers, or the plain open sailing boat. 1891Lit. World 20 Nov. 419/2 The Vancouver, one of the splendid 5,000 tonners of the White Star Line. 1959I. Jefferies Thirteen Days iv. 43 The Arab six-tonner driver. 1978R. Mark Office of Constable iii. 38 Came the great day when the survivors were packed with their kit into a three-tonner en route for Sandhurst. |