Word Meaning

ton definition and meaning

pl. of Toe.
n. The common tunny, or house mackerel.
n. The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
n. A measure of weight or quantity.
n. The weight of twenty hundredweight.
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.
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.

Crossword clues for ton

- 20 cwt
- 2240 lbs
- A bit astonished with weight
- a shipping unit for short
- Approximately 1016 kilograms
- CWT
- Heavy imperial weight
- Heavy weight
- Huge amount
- Large amount
- Mass unit
- Not about to become a heavyweight
- Not up to being a heavyweight
- Older weight
- Score of a hundred
- Unit of weight
- Unit weight not written up
- Weight is not going up
- Weight unit
- Work unit