Timeline for How did a "ton" come to mean "one hundred" of something?

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Dec 11, 2017 at 23:07	history	bounty ended	RaceYouAnytime
Dec 11, 2017 at 18:56	comment	added	user 66974		@BoldBen - it could actually be both, but my assumption is a semantic link rather than a rhyming one.
Dec 11, 2017 at 13:04	comment	added	BoldBen		My understanding of Cockney Rhyming Slang has always been that a single word slang term in Rhyming Slang is the first word of a two word slang term where the second word rhymes with the real term, for example "the gal with the blonde barnet" (Barnet Fair = hair) and "take a butcher's at that" (Butcher's Hook = look). Are you suggesting that "ton" is a similar remnant of a phrase that rhymes with "hundred" or is it a piece of straight slang without a rhyming element (like boozer = public house)?
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