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- noun Plural form of
tun .
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Examples
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I have called tuns of apartments for a while now and wondered if anyone knew of one piticularly and could give me the name or number for the office?
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It was an estimate of a ship’s capacity, in terms of the number of very large casks of wine or water, called tuns, that she could carry.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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It was an estimate of a ship’s capacity, in terms of the number of very large casks of wine or water, called tuns, that she could carry.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Since wine was shipped in "tuns" that each held 8 barrels or about 242 gallons, a ship that could carry 8,000 wine barrels was considered a 1,000-tun ship.
Livescience.com 2009
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This tuns out to cost your company roughly $800,000 per month when the defective circuit boards are put aside and recycled.
Christopher Scott: Reforming Education Reform -- Teaching in the Broken System Christopher Scott 2010
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This tuns out to cost your company roughly $800,000 per month when the defective circuit boards are put aside and recycled.
Christopher Scott: Reforming Education Reform -- Teaching in the Broken System Christopher Scott 2010
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You are looney tuns if you think Ike could have “decided”
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010
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Allegations (unfounded, as it tuns out) that British university researchers cooked climate data in an excess of environmental correctness haven't helped.
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(Thirteen baktuns, zero katuns, zero tuns, zero uinals, zero kins in the Maya notation) corresponds to the year 3114 B.C. (give or take a year) in our current Julian-Gregorian calendar?
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(Thirteen baktuns, zero katuns, zero tuns, zero uinals, zero kins in the Maya notation) corresponds to the year 3114 B.C. (give or take a year) in our current Julian-Gregorian calendar?
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