- (n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.
- (n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
- (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.
- (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.
- pl. of Toe.
- (n.) The common tunny or house mackerel.
- (n.) A measure of weight or quantity.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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