Ton mile

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• Ton

  ·- ·pl of Toe. II. Ton ·noun A measure of weight or quantity. III. Ton ·noun The weight of twenty ...

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• ton

  , or tun [from the Anglo-Saxon tunne]. In commerce, 20 cwt., or 2240 lbs., but in the cubical cont...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mile

  mile, mīlēsĭmus, etc., v. mille, millesimus, etc. ...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• Mile

  ·noun A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles ...

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• Mile

  (from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of 1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• mile

  Often in the singular with a ntlnleral, instead of the plural miles. Mr. Hartshorne, in his Glossary...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mile

  The statute mile is 5280 feet; but that used at sea, termed the mean nautic mile, consists of 6075·6...

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• Mile

  a Roman measure of length, equal to 1618 English yards-4854 feet, or about nine-tenths of an English...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• ton for ton and man for man

  A phrase implying that ships sailing as consorts, ought fairly to divide whatever prize they take. ...

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• Assay ton

  ·add. ·- A weight of 29.166 + grams used in assaying, for convenience. Since it bears the same relat...

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• Bon ton

  ·- The height of the fashion; fashionable society. ...

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• Foot ton

  ·add. ·- A unit of energy or work, being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force...

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• Metric ton

  ·add. ·- A weight of 1,000 kilograms, or 2,204.6 pounds avoirdupois. ...

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• Ton mileage

  ·add. ·- Ton miles collectively; ·esp., the total ton miles performed by a railroad in a given perio...

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• t'on-end

  upright. It mult be set a t'on end. My wife keeps a t'on end yet : i. e. she is not brought to bed y...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• t'on t'other

  one another. Derb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Car mile

  ·add. ·- A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the averag...

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• Passenger mile

  ·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a give...

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• Sea mile

  ·- A geographical mile. ·see <<Mile>>. ...

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• Three-mile

  ·add. ·adj Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine bel...

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• Traffic mile

  ·add. ·- Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• welch mile

  Like a Welch mile, long and narrow. His story is like a Welch mile, long and tedious. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• minute mile

  The sixtieth part of a degree of longitude or latitude; in the latter case it is the sixtieth part o...

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• nautical mile

  (MEAN) = 6075·6 feet. ...

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• Three Ton Alley

  In Long Lane (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Three Ton Alley, Ivy Lane

  See Ship Alley and Three Tuns Alley, Court, Newgate Street. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.