Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ten-pounder , 3.
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Examples
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My attitude towards other enterprises is that we are sufficiently and disproportionately represented in other branches, especially teaching preaching politics governmental patronage &c which require no financial responsibility; consequently the results place us in the attitude of a Castillian gentleman who is facetiously described thus -- _Caballero sin caballo, Mucho piojo, poco dinero_, that is, a knight without a horse, Plenty of lice, little money.
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