tonner

[ tuhn-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination):
The sailboat was a twelve-tonner.

Origin of tonner¹

1850–55; in parasynthetic compounds formed from ton ¹ and a quantifier; -er ¹

They went inside swiftly and in a very few minutes prepared the thousand-tonner for blastoff.

It'ud take a ten-thousand tonner with fathoms to spare right away up to the mooring berth.

That second winter he set to and built a ten-tonner all by hisself—that is, t' hull.

I should say about a thirty-tonner that would carry four comfortably would be the sort of thing.

Nothing remained but to choose our particular 90 tonner with a good character.

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