noun.
A Middle English plural of toe.
noun.
The prevailing mode; high fashion; style; air of fashion. See bon-ton.
See tone.
noun.
A form of -town, being the word town used in place-names, as Ashton, Hampton, Wolverton, Merton.
noun.
A cask; hence, a measure of capacity used for wine. See tun, 1.
noun.
A measure of capacity: used
noun.
for timber. 40 feet of oak or ash timber, sometimes 48 or 50 feet of hewn
noun.
for flour, 8 sacks or 10 barrels
noun.
for potatoes, 10 to 36 bushels
noun.
for wheat, 20 bushels
noun.
for earth or gravel, 1 cubie yard, sometimes 23 cubic feet
noun.
for grindstones, 15 cubic feet
noun.
for Portland stone, 16 cubic feet
noun.
for salt, 42 bushels
noun.
for lime, 40 bushels
noun.
for coke, 28 bushels
noun.
for the carrying capacity of a ship, 40 cubic feet (this is what is called the actual tonnage: See tonnage).
noun.
A measure of weight, equal to 20 hundred-weight or 2,240 pounds avoirdupois (the long ton), or in the United States to 2,000 pounds (the short ton).