Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large cask for liquids, especially wine.
- noun A measure of liquid capacity, especially one equivalent to approximately 252 gallons (954 liters).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer. See
ton . - noun Any vessel; a jar.
- noun In a brewery, the fermenting-vat or -tank.
- noun A measure of capacity, equal by old statutes to 252 wine-gallons.
- noun In conchology, a shell of the genus Dolium or family Doliidæ; a tun-shell.
- noun The upper part of a chimney; also, the chimney itself.
- noun An amended spelling of ton.
- noun An obsolete form of
town . - To store in a tun or tuns, as wine or malt liquor; hence, to store in vessels of any sort for keeping.
- To fill as if a tun.
- To mingle with liquor when it is stored, as for the purpose of flavoring it, or making it keep better.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
- noun (Brewing) A fermenting vat.
- noun 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.
- noun (Com.), rare A weight of 2,240 pounds. See
Ton . - noun An indefinite large quantity.
- noun A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also
tun-shell . - transitive verb To put into tuns, or casks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
- noun brewing A fermenting vat.
- noun An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.
- noun A weight of 2,240 pounds.
- noun An indefinite large quantity.
- noun archaic A
drunkard . - noun zoology Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; called also tun-shell.
- verb transitive To put into tuns, or casks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Back on the local (non-EC2) workstation, set up the software: sudo apt-get install - y openvpn sudo modprobe tun sudo iptables - I OUTPUT - o tun+ - j ACCEPT sudo iptables - I INPUT - i tun+ - j ACCEPT
Planet Ubuntu 2009
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Later the village was surrounded by a wall called a tun, and by a transfer of terms the village frequently came to be called a mark, or tun, later changed to town.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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-- A tun is a certain measure for liquids, as for wine, and its capacity equals two pipes, or four hogsheads, or 252 gallons.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various
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In the case of Sam Adams, where the production of beer isn't that large, the brew kettle is usually just the mash kettle or the mash tun, which is rinsed out in preparation for the addition of the wort.
eCoustics.com news 2010
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The fraught of these prouisions for a man, will be about halfe a tun, which is12 l. 10s. 10d.
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If drought strikes, they essentially shut down their metabolism and shrivel up into a ball called a tun, waiting until water returns.
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I thought the name was Anglo-Saxon for the topographical feature of the Humber River and "tun" or "ton", meaning farm or homestead.
Black Sabbath Gets Medieval ealdthryth 2003
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Thus Ea-ton, a name scattered all along the Thames, from its very source to the last reaches, is the "tun" by the water or stream.
The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911
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When the block-house and palisade enclosed the farm of a single settler the "tun," in its still earlier sense, was even more nearly reproduced.
The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Wokings, and Wellington the 'tun' of the Wellings.
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865
john commented on the word tun
"Any large vessel used in brewing. In America, the term 'tub' is more commonly used."
- Beer Glossary
October 7, 2007
bilby commented on the word tun
Old wine to drink!
Ay, give the slippery juice
That drippeth from the grape thrown loose
Within the tun;
Plucked from beneath the cliff
Of sunny-sided Teneriffe,
And ripened 'neath the blink
Of India's sun!
- Robert Hinckley Messinger, 'A Winter Wish'.
September 16, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word tun
Everybody has heard of the great Heidelberg Tun, and most people have seen it, no doubt. It is a wine-cask as big as a cottage, and some traditions say it holds eighteen thousand bottles, and other traditions say it holds eighteen hundred million barrels. I think it likely that one of these statements is a mistake, and the other is a lie. However, the mere matter of capacity is a thing of no sort of consequence, since the cask is empty, and indeed has always been empty, history says. An empty cask the size of a cathedral could excite but little emotion in me.
– Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880
September 16, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word tun
"There is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of a fat old man; a tun of man is thy companion."
Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1, II. iv. line 498.
September 24, 2009
sionnach commented on the word tun
How many hogsheads make up a tun? Or, for that matter, how many firkins?
and that Beer Glossary 'definition' totally blows.
September 24, 2009
bilby commented on the word tun
How many firkin hogsheads do you want it to be, punk?!
September 24, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word tun
Don't even ask me, as an American, to calculate how many gills (imperial unit of volume for liquid measure, equal to one-quarter of a pint or five fluid ounces 0.142 litre it would take to equal a hogshead, a pin, kilderin, butt, puncheon or a firkin)! I've trouble enough converting liters to ounces or gallons and vice-versa! And don't we all, I say?
September 24, 2009
sionnach commented on the word tun
Oh, c'mon, hh - use your noggin!
September 24, 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word tun
See tardigrades.
November 21, 2015