tun

noun \ ˈtən \

|Updated on: 17 Jul 2018

Examples: tun in a Sentence

Definition of tun

1 : a large cask especially for wine

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

Examples of tun in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples of tun from the Web

Photo: soe zeya tun/Reuters Air tanks are delivered to the site for divers to use in the rescue mission.

— jake maxwell watts, WSJ, "The Thai Cave Rescue, Before Its Triumph, Teetered on the Brink of Disaster," 11 July 2018
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
Kingery doubled in another tun in the fifth and already has six doubles.

— matt breen, Philly.com, "Phillies beat Rays for fifth straight win behind J.P. Crawford, Jake Arrieta," 14 Apr. 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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Origin and Etymology of tun

Middle English tonne, tunne, from Old English & Anglo-French; Old English, from Medieval Latin tunna; Anglo-French tone, tonne, from Medieval Latin

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First Known Use: before 12th century

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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