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The Meaning of ton
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() pl. of Toe.
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(n.) The common tunny, or house mackerel.
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(n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
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(n.) A measure of weight or quantity.
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(n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.
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(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.
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(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.
Synonyms
short ton
,
net ton
,
long ton
,
gross ton
Homophones
tonne
,
tun
Rhymes
anyone
,
been
,
begun
,
blowgun
,
bruhn
,
brun
,
brunn
,
bun
,
bunn
,
byun
,
c1
,
chun
,
chunn
,
done
,
donne
,
dun
,
dunn
,
dunne
,
erven
,
everyone
,
fun
,
grandson
,
gruhn
,
grun
,
gun
,
gunn
,
handgun
,
homerun
,
homespun
,
huhn
,
hun
,
hunn
,
hyun
,
kun
,
lajeune
,
luhn
,
lun
,
lunn
,
m1
,
mcfun
,
mcmunn
,
mun
,
munn
,
none
,
nuhn
,
nun
,
nunn
,
one
,
outdone
,
outgun
,
outrun
,
overdone
,
overrun
,
puget-1
,
pun
,
rerun
,
run
,
shotgun
,
shun
,
simeone
,
someone
,
son
,
spun
,
stepson
,
stun
,
sun
,
terrebonne
,
than
,
thrun
,
thun
,
tonne
,
un
,
undone
,
won
,
youn
,
yun