TON, the termination of names of places, is town. TON, noun The prevailing fashion. TON, noun The weight of twenty hundred gross. [See Tun.] This is false orthography. The word is from the Saxon tunna, a cask, and the sense of weight is taken from that of a cask or butt.
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