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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of tonnage.

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Examples

  • Dernier said there would be no investigation into the sinking of the 12000 tonn Panamanian-registered vessel as there had been no witnesses and no evidence.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • [FF] "The Deliverance, of 70 tonn, and the Patience, of 30 tonn."

    Colonial Records of Virginia Various

  • It is interesting to note that "All alients for roulinge on the sande te paye pr tonn IId."; which does not refer to any merry sport of rolling on the sands, as sometimes practised by exhilarated visitors, but to rolling of fish.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • _Mir_ in Celtic signifies rage or fuss; _tonn_ or _thonn_, a wave;

    The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad Various 1865

  • Acquainting me that a person just come from thence told him that our miners the Week before had rais'd three tonns of that rich ore who told him he would give £50 a tonn for it here in the Country this was one Shaw a refiner who we had in our business for a year & a half before the miners came in this I beleive you will take for a

    Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Athawes, July 31, 1731 1731

  • Imcool_pawan Sachin Tendulkar is strugling hard to save India ... 1st test aganst SA .... hope to see another tonn ..

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ians 2010

  • For this year, processed meat ¿éëäâýðëýë 300.0 ìÿíãàí òí, ýêîëîãèéí was 12.0 thousand tonn, processed milk was öýâýð ò¿ëøíèé ¿éëäâýðëýë 150 ìÿí. òí 7.4 million liter, cement production was 269.3 áàéõààð òóñãàñàí áºãººä 2008 îíû thousand tonn, briquette production was

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  • A simple web-search turns up a tonn of comercial solutions already.

    Slashdot: Hardware 2009

  • A simple web-search turns up a tonn of comercial solutions already.

    doggdot.us 2009

  • Mongolia's economic and social ÷èãëýëä ¿éëäâýðëýëèéí àðãààð development in 2008, it was reflected to be áîëîâñðóóëñàí ìàõíû õýìæýý 19.0 ìÿíãàí that processed meat 19.0 thousand ton, flour òîíí, äîòîîäûí ¿éëäâýðëýëýýð õàíãàõ domestic supply of 43\%, processed milk 25.9 ãóðèëûí õàíãàëòûí õóâü 43, million liter, cement production 300.0 ¿éëäâýðëýëèéí àðãààð áîëîâñðóóëñàí thousand ton, briquette production 150.0 ñ¿¿íèé õýìæýýã 25.9 ñàÿ ëèòð, öåìåíòíèé thousand tonn.

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