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noun
Tun  n.  
1.
A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
2.
(Brewing) A fermenting vat.
3.
A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
4.
(Com.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton. (R.)
5.
An indefinite large quantity. "A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ."
6.
A drunkard; so called humorously, or in contempt.
7.
(Zool.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; called also tun-shell.


verb
Tun  v. t.  (past & past part. tunned; pres. part. tunning)  To put into tuns, or casks.





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"Tun" Quotes from Famous Books



... one by one by four inches. In Munich this was, and perhaps still is, carried by brew masters on their tasting tours "to bring out the excellence of a freshly broached tun." Named from being made by monks in early cloisters, ...
— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown
... And he must have her from the dead. There in such lines, as did well suit With sad airs and a lover's lute, And in the richest language dress'd That could be thought on or express'd, Did he complain; whatever grief Or art or love—which is the chief, And all ennobles—could lay out, In well-tun'd woes he dealt about. And humbly bowing to the prince Of ghosts begg'd some intelligence Of his Eurydice, and where His beauteous saint resided there. Then to his lute's instructed groans He sigh'd out new melodious ...
— Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II • Henry Vaughan
... nigh empty," said Nigel. "There are two firkins of small beer and a tun of canary. How can we set such drink before ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle
... for Ingratitude to God in that I stamp'd my foot and said No! But Richard laugh'd at the idea of Jessamine wedding yon tun. Quoth Richard, "Let Jessamine be, all of ye! she is meat for his masters." Freeman smil'd sourly, & shrug'd. I love not Freeman, nor do I hate him overmuch though he ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler
... despairing, faint, (The price paid down) you are ordain'd to paint. Why dwindle to a cruet from a tun? Simple be ...
— The Art Of Poetry An Epistle To The Pisos - Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica. • Horace


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