tun

\ ˈtən

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Definition of tun

1 : a large cask especially for wine

2 : any of various units of liquid capacity especially : one equal to 252 gallons

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in olden days an English ship's capacity was measured by the number of tuns of wine it could hold

Recent Examples on the Web The config files consists of pki, static_host_map, lighthouse, listen, tun, and firewall sections. — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, "Nebula VPN routes between hosts privately, flexibly, and efficiently," 12 Dec. 2019 For instance, brewing the Norwegian Woods farmhouse ale ($6.50) involved putting branches, fallen leaves, Eastern red cedar and spruce clippings into the mash tun (the chamber where grain starch is converted to sugars) before adding malts. — Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, "How is beer made? 4 Baltimore area farm breweries find success in hops, not crops.," 6 Nov. 2019 The milled grains go into a mash tun, where starches are converted to simple sugars. — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, "Backed by his boss, John Howie, sommelier/master distiller Erik Liedholm pours his heart and talent into award-winning liquors," 20 June 2018 Stephen Lyons welds a leg onto at later tun inside the new Southern Tier and Victory brewery in South End. — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, "‘Beer’s the hero.’ One of the biggest breweries in Charlotte is set to open soon. | Charlotte Observer," 13 Mar. 2018 Steam heats the cooking tun, which creates an even boil. — John Perritano, Popular Mechanics, "How the Founding Fathers Made Their Beer," 25 June 2013 Forks clank down, sleeves roll up, and diners file into the abutting bodega to fill their glasses with cool, foamy sagardo straight from the 5,000-gallon tun. — Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, "On the Cider Trail in Spain's Basque Country," 16 Feb. 2018 The brewer then soaks the grist in a vat of hot water called the mash tun, which converts the starch into sugar. — John Perritano, Popular Mechanics, "How the Founding Fathers Made Their Beer," 25 June 2013 Modern brewers pass the mash into a device called the mash/lauter tun for straining. — John Perritano, Popular Mechanics, "How the Founding Fathers Made Their Beer," 25 June 2013

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“Tun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tun. Accessed 19 Feb. 2020.

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