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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tun
a large cask for holding liquids, esp. wine, ale, or beer.

2. tun
a measure of liquid capacity, usu. equivalent to 252 gallons.

3. (v.t.) tun
to put into or store in a tun or tuns.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME tunne, OE, c. OFris, MD, MLG tunne, tonne, late ON tunna, perh. all ult. < early ML

Definition of 'TUN'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tun
a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals

Definition of 'TUN'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) TUN
a large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask

2. (noun) TUN
a fermenting vat

3. (noun) TUN
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. (noun) TUN
a weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton

5. (noun) TUN
an indefinite large quantity

6. (noun) TUN
a drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt

7. (noun) TUN
any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell

8. (verb) TUN
to put into tuns, or casks

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