Synonyms of tun

tun

noun

ˈtən 

as in barrel

an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• barrel
• pipe
• keg
• cask
• hogshead
• puncheon
• butt
• firkin
• rundlet
• kilderkin
• tub
• drum
• vat
• cistern
• scuttlebutt
• can

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tun

The production floor also holds a 500-gallon mash tun and fermenters of the same size. — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

The similarities suggest the mechanism may be a common trigger for tuns and other forms of hardy dormancy, a phenomenon that scientists call cryptobiosis. — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024

The agaves are cut into one inch cubes and then cooked for seven hours in a heated mash tun equipped with a stream jacket. — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021

In a commercial brewhouse, the grain is cracked in a mill then sent through a grist case, which dispenses it into a vessel called the mash tun. — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2020

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, 16 Feb. 2018