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(1):

pl. of Toe.

(2):

(n.) The common tunny, or house mackerel.

(3):

(n.) A measure of weight or quantity.

(4):

(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.

(5):

(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.

(6):

(n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.

(7):

(n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.