Ton /(tŏn)/

Ton

pl.
  1. pl. of Toe. obs.

Ton

n.
  1. The common tunny, or horse mackerel. (Zool.)

Ton

n.
  1. 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.

Phrases & Compounds
Bon ton
See in the Vocabulary.

Ton

n.
  1. A measure of weight or quantity. (Com.)
  2. The weight of twenty hundredweight.
  3. 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.)
  4. 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.)