tonner
[ tuhn-er ]
noun
something having a specified weight in tons (used in combination): The sailboat was a twelve-tonner.
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How to use tonner in a sentence
They went inside swiftly and in a very few minutes prepared the thousand-tonner for blastoff.
Equation of Doom | Gerald VanceIt'ud take a ten-thousand tonner with fathoms to spare right away up to the mooring berth.
The Man in the Twilight | Ridgwell CullumThat second winter he set to and built a ten-tonner all by hisself—that is, t' hull.
Labrador Days | Wilfred Thomason GrenfellI should say about a thirty-tonner that would carry four comfortably would be the sort of thing.
Dorothy's Double | G. A. HentyNothing remained but to choose our particular 90 tonner with a good character.
A Floating Home | Cyril Ionides
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