01 pl. pl. of Toe.
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Entry
7 senses · 4 variants
Webster, 1913
Ton
/(tŏn)/
· IPA /tʌn/
02 n. The common tunny, or horse mackerel.
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The common tunny, or horse mackerel.(Zool.)
03 n. The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
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The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.“If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.” — Thackeray.
Phrases & compounds
Bon ton —
See in the Vocabulary.
04 n. A measure of weight or quantity.
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A measure of weight or quantity.(Com.)
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The weight of twenty hundredweight.
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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.(Naut. & Com.)
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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.(Naut. & Com.)