Tun definition

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tunned tunning
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A large cask for liquids, especially wine.
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A measure of liquid capacity, especially one equivalent to approximately 252 gallons (954 liters).
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A large cask, esp. for wine, beer, or ale.
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A measure of capacity for liquids, usually 252 wine gallons (954 liters)
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To put into or store in a tun or tuns.
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(geo, place, proper) Tunisia.
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The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Tunisia.
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Noun

Singular:
tun
Plural:
tuns

Origin of tun

  • Middle English from Old English tunne possibly of Celtic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tun Sentence Examples

  • The derivation from the Saxon cesc (ash) and tun (an enclosed place) accounts for the earliest orthography Estun.

  • These officials seem to have been located in royal villages (cyninges tun, villa regalis) or fortresses (cyninges burg, orbs regis), which served as centres and meeting-places (markets, &c.) for the inhabitants of the district, and to which their dues, both in payments and services had to be rendered.

  • The whole group of buildings stood in an enclosure (tun) surrounded by a stockade (burg), which perhaps rested on an earthwork, though this is disputed.

  • Among the points of interest within it are the old chapel of 1318, with Leopold's tomb and the altar of Verdun, dating from the 12th century, the treasury and relic-chamber, the library with 30,000 volumes and many MSS., the picture gallery, the collection of coins, the theological hall, and the winecellar, containing an immense tun like that at Heidelberg.

  • The defendants agreed that each of them was bound to pay the tun, and they put themselves in mercy.

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