seven-pounder

The seven-pounder, though, insists on being draped across that same right forearm (after a feline struggle for supremacy).

Writing Companions at SF Novelists 2010

I stopped and watched as the kid skillfully reeled in a black bass, probably a seven-pounder.

FISHING LESSON • by Gayla Chaney 2007

The first message from our seven-pounder did not bring her to, nor did a second, but when a third went unpleasantly close, right through her broad lug-sail, we could see her come up to the wind sharp, while a fourth shot, which we now sent to show those on board that we meant business and would be obeyed, caused her heavy yard to be dropped by the run in token of surrender.

The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

Here they do not average more than four pounds, a seven-pounder being rare.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

At the beginning of August the force which he had for this purpose, as well as to guard a large store of supplies, consisted of 500 men, nearly all Imperial bushmen or Rhodesians, an old muzzle-loading seven-pounder, and two maxims.

A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

In this way they were assisted by the timely and well-directed fire of a seven-pounder, under

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

On the 6th the seven-pounder gun lost by the S.A.C. was recovered, and George Hall, a prominent Boer leader, captured.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

Hore's old seven-pounder, though it succeeded in silencing a Boer gun, and killed a German gunner, was very capricious in its working, and was obviously no match for the Boer guns.

A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

French ordered the Natal Battery to turn its little seven-pounder on the station.

Sir John French Chisholm, Cecil 1915

The scouts went on ahead, the troops resumed their formation, the two seven-pounder mountain-guns closed up behind, and Durrance's detachment of the Camel Corps moved down from the gloomy ridge of Khor Gwob, thirty-five miles southwest of Suakin, into the plateau of Sinkat.

The Four Feathers 1906