Usually means: Unit of weight, 2240 pounds.
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  1. long tons: Merriam-Webster
  2. long tons: Collins English Dictionary
  3. long tons: Vocabulary.com
  4. long tons: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. long tons: Wiktionary
  6. Long tons: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Long tons: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  3. Long tons: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Long tons: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Long tons: Medical dictionary

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  1. Long tons: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (long ton)

noun:  (chiefly historical) A traditional unit of mass equal to 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each, equivalent to approximately 1016 kilograms.
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