tonner
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tonner
1850–55; in parasynthetic compounds formed from ton 1 and a quantifier; see -er 1
Example Sentences
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She's a sixty tonner and by God! fit to cross the Atlantic!
From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Savage, Richard
It'ud take a ten-thousand tonner with fathoms to spare right away up to the mooring berth.
From The Man in the Twilight by Cullum, Ridgwell
He sold the little five tonner he had formerly possessed, and purchased the Seabird.
From Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The Seabird is as good a seaboat as anything of her size that floats; but you don't know what it is to be out in anything like a heavy sea in a thirty tonner.
From Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The Company guesses they got to put on a two thousand tonner.
From The Man in the Twilight by Cullum, Ridgwell
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