Read full poem →Of water sucking the hollow ledges,
Tons of water striking the shore,--
What do they long for, as I long for
Dictionary Entry
A unit of weight (mass) equal to 2240 pounds (a long ton) or 2000 pounds (a short ton) or 1000 kilograms (a metric ton).
Origin
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Common Phrases
. tonsper tonstons milliontons metrictons thousandtons hundredtons shorttons two
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Poetry examples for “tons”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →which thirty-two are bloomaries and seven refineries; making alto*
gether, in 1854, 912 tons of bar-iron, and 480 tons of blooms.
Read full poem →Think to make the river-mouth by the single narrow way,
Trust to enter where 'tis ticklish for a craft of twenty tons, 20
And with flow at full beside?
Read full poem →Think to make the river-mouth by the single narrow way,
Trust to enter where 'tis ticklish for a craft of twenty tons,
And with flow at full beside?
Read full poem →WE trenched, we trumpeted and drummed,
And from our mortars tons of iron hummed
Ath’art the ditch, the month we bombed