Meaning of ટન 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.
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
- A fermenting vat.
- A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
- A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
- An indefinite large quantity.
- A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
- Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
- To put into tuns, or casks.
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