one-ton

Updated: January 29, 2026

Had I not already gathered some notion of the powers for destruction of those one-ton, four-foot-long shells, I should have said that the spot where we halted had been battered and crashed at for hours; that scores and perhaps hundreds of bombs had been plumped into it.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front