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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A wooden pillar or post set up in a market-place and supporting a horizontal beam on which were hung the town scales for weighing wool and other articles: hence the phrases tron weight, tron stone, tron pound, etc. Also trone.
  • noun A wooden air-shaft in a mine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Obs. or Scot. See 3d trone, 2.

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Examples

  • End of story. gary corr after a look at the new tron trailer, i think garret hedlund looks like the best of the bunch for the part. especially since tron is a disney film, there would be a connection between the two. then again, tron looks to be starting a trilogy, so even though its not impossible for an actor to be in two running series, its rather rare.

    John Krasinski is the Top Choice for Captain America? | /Film 2010

  • Jul 15, 2007 7: 38: 00 PM navid thinks .. beat level six, took a while but i finally did it. tron is great

    Play Tron Online and Offline 2007

  • A measure of this gadget's exclusivity, relative to such factors as cost and availability Halloween-specific variant of the company's earlier Annoy-a-tron, which is a device that makes an annoying beep at varying intervals to make it as hard as possible to find and turn off.

    AskMen.com - HOME PAGE 2009

  • The Audi e-tron, which is slowed by four lightweight ceramic brake discs, takes the next large step into the future.

    Autoblog Green 2009

  • Audi may not be positioning itself as a "green brand," but it's still putting a rather big toe into the environmentally-friendly waters of electric sportscars with its R8-based e-tron, which is reportedly headed for production in 2012.

    Luxist 2009

  • The Audi e-tron, which is slowed by four lightweight ceramic brake discs, takes the next large step into the future.

    Autoblog Green 2009

  • R8-based e-tron, which is reportedly headed for production in 2012.

    Autoblog 2009

  • Because that looked pretty cool abayarts wow. i always wonder how the world of "tron" would look now, because we are so advance in CGI and what not.

    Tron Legacy Movie Trailer | /Film 2010

  • The record is solid, if not a bit on the slick side - I really like the 'tron's first and second albums, 2001's 604, which preceded the big retro-80s/electroclash push by a year, and 2002's Light & Magic, which featured my favorite track of theirs "Seventeen," which graced many a mix-tape that year.

    Hey Lady! (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • The record is solid, if not a bit on the slick side - I really like the 'tron's first and second albums, 2001's 604, which preceded the big retro-80s/electroclash push by a year, and 2002's Light & Magic, which featured my favorite track of theirs "Seventeen," which graced many a mix-tape that year.

    Music (For Robots): February 2006 Archives 2006

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