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Definition of Ton
Pronunciation: tǒn | pl. | 1. | pl. of Toe. | | n. | 1. | (Zool.) The common tunny, or horse mackerel. | | 1. | The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton. | | 1. | (Com.) A measure of weight or quantity. | | 2. | The weight of twenty hundredweight. | | 3. | (Naut. & Com.) 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. | | 4. | (Naut. & Com.) 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. |
Related Words
avoirdupois unit, cental, centner, cwt, hundredweight, kiloton, net ton, quintal, short hundredweight, short ton
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