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A gun carrying shot of a specified weight. Cf. six-pounder, n. 1, ten-pounder, n. 1, etc.
= pounder, n.4 1a. Obsolete. rare.
A relatively long-barrelled gun for firing twelve-pound shells, formerly in naval use. Now historical.