Ton
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Ton [1]
(1):
pl. of Toe.
(2):
(n.) The common tunny, or house mackerel.
(3):
(n.) A measure of weight or quantity.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.
(7):
(n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
