long ton

long ton

English

Etymology

Distinguishing this measure from the "short ton" of 2000 pounds.

Noun

long ton (plural long tons)

1. (chiefly historical) A traditional unit of mass equal to 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each, equivalent to about 1016 kg.

Synonyms

• tun (obsolete), ton (some contexts)

Translations

ton of 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds each

Chinese: Mandarin: 長噸／长吨 (zh) (chángdūn) Dutch: please add this translation if you can Finnish: pitkä tonni Hungarian: angol tonna Japanese: 英トン (えいトン, eiton) Swedish: engelskt ton n

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