noun. A unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds (0.907 metric ton or 907.18 kilograms).

noun. A unit of weight equal to 2,240 pounds (1.016 metric tons or 1,016.05 kilograms).

noun. A metric ton.

noun. A unit of capacity for cargo in maritime shipping, normally estimated at 40 cubic feet.

noun. A unit of internal capacity of a ship equal to 100 cubic feet.

noun. A unit for measuring the displacement of ships, equal to 35 cubic feet, and supposed to equal the volume taken by a long ton of seawater.

noun. undefined

noun. A large extent, amount, or number.

noun. Used adverbially with a or in the plural to mean “to a great degree or extent” or “frequently”.

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).

noun. The common tunny, or horse mackerel.

pl. of toe.

noun. The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue.

noun. See in the Vocabulary.

noun. A measure of weight or quantity.

noun. The weight of twenty hundredweight.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. A unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton).

noun. A unit of volume; register ton.

noun. In refrigeration and air conditioning, a unit of thermal power defined as 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.514 kW or 3024 kcal/h), originally the rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of one short ton of ice per day at 32 °F (0 °C).

noun. A large amount.

noun. A speed of 100 mph.

noun. One hundred pounds sterling.

noun. One hundred runs.

noun. One hundred points.

noun. Fashion, the current style, the vogue.

noun. Fashionable society; those in style.

noun. a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds

noun. a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds

"Although 2,000 pounds make 1 ton, it is well to note that 2,240 pounds make 1 _long ton_ (L.T.)."