tonne
/tʌn
/noun
Another term for metric ton.This is a record as the average yield in the State is around four tonnes per hectare....
- We then visited this to discover that out of the six hundred tonnes, only about fifty tonnes were left by then.
- Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of cod were taken out each year, building up great fortunes for those that fished it.
Origin
Late 19th century: from French; compare with ton1.
Rhymes
- take up (or throw down) the gauntlet
- take up the cudgels
- take up the running
- take up with
- take wing
- take-with
- takhaar
- takht
- Takilma
- takin
- taking
- taking clause
- taking day
- taking in
- taking lens
- takingly
- takingness
- taking off
- taking-off board
- taking-off boy
- taking on
- takings clause
- taking screen
- Taki-Taki
- takkie