TON


Meaning of TON in English

pl of toe.

2. ton ·noun a measure of weight or quantity.

3. ton ·noun the weight of twenty hundredweight.

4. ton ·noun the common tunny, or house mackerel.

5. ton ·noun the prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.

6. ton ·noun forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden.

7. ton ·noun a certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, ·etc.

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