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gross ton

n. a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds [syn: long ton, ton]

Usage examples of "gross ton".

If not for Pitt's timely appearance, the simplest of events, the freak circumstance of a tiny bit of metal tapping against a small lever, a twenty-five hundred gross ton ship and all its passengers and crew, alive or dead, would have crashed into unyielding rock and fallen into a cold and dispassionate sea.