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