Look up: tun

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   Tun
   A tun is a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale or beer. A tun is also a measure of capacity, equivalent to 252 wine gallons. In London a tun of beer was two butts.
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   tun
   [n] - a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
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   Tun
   Large vessels used in brewing. In America, 'tub' is often preferred.
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   Tun
   A wine cask that holds approximately, two butts, or 252 U.S. gallons.
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   tun
   big cask Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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   tun
   1. A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. ... 2. 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. A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton. ... 5. An indef ...
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   tun
   noun a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
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   Tun
   `Tun` may refer to: *An antiquated British measurement of liquid volume, approximately 252 gallons or 954 litres **A cask with a volume of one tun, especially of wine. *An insulated vessel with a false bottom used in brewing, as in lauter tun or mash tun. *A Malay title or honorific *The Mayan word for unit of time in the Long Count calendar, equal to 360 days or 18 `winal` *TUN, a virtual network device driver *An Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse word...
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   Tun
   • (n.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell. • (n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. • (n.) A fermenting vat. • (v. i.) To put into tuns, or casks. • (n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt. ...
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    tun
    (from the article `chronology`) Reckoning was not by those years but by tuns (360 days) and their multiples of 20: katuns (20 tuns), baktuns (400 tuns), pictuns (8,000 ...
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