Meaning of टन in English
- pl. of Toe.
- The common tunny, or house mackerel.
- The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
- A measure of weight or quantity.
- The weight of twenty hundredweight.
- 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.
- 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.
- A tun.
- The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.
- The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. (b).
- A duty or impost on vessels, estimated per ton, or, a duty, toll, or rate payable on goods per ton transported on canals.
- The whole amount of shipping estimated by tons; as, the tonnage of the United States. See Ton.
- Abounding in tone or sound.
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