tonnage

• She chuckled and said that Tony just laughed at how the media would focus on sweet little Jessica's weight and ignore Rush Limbaugh's tonnage which is probably close to 500 pounds by now, or Wyonna Juggs (Judd) who hasn't seen her feet in years. —  TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
• In 1915, though the tonnage was about the same, this number was reduced to 63, which was a record. —  American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
• Moreover, of this increase in English tonnage, a large percentage had been in steamers, one ton of which class was estimated to be equal in efficiency to three tons of sailing-ships; while, by substituting largely iron for wood, England had gained a still further advantage in her much larger class of iron vessels, doubly as durable as those of wood. —  Manual of Ship Subsidies
• That determined, it may be possible to ascertain whether we cannot assist Norway, Belgium and Sicily in carrying our cotton, wheat and tobacco to the purchasers of it Illustration: INTERIOR OF A POSTAL CAR This decline in American tonnage is, it must be added, only relative, whether the comparison be made with other countries or with our own past. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
• The neutrals--save America--have been intimidated; they are keeping their ships in harbour; and to do without their tonnage is a serious matter for us. —  Towards the Goal

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