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
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Recent Examples of tun
Under stressful conditions, with cysteine unavailable to the free radicals being produced, the tardigrades couldn’t form tuns.
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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
All the remaining grain falls to the bottom of the stainless steel tun, creating a grain bed through which the liquid passes on its way back to the mash kettle.
—Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 31 May 2017
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
All the remaining grain falls to the bottom of the stainless steel tun, creating a grain bed through which the liquid passes on its way back to the mash kettle.
—Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 31 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tun
Noun
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Saudi Arabia has posted a budget deficit every year of the past decade, except 2022 when oil prices spiked to more than $100 a barrel.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Just didn’t get enough barrel on it.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The National Park Service closes the North Rim in winter, in part because the historic Grand Canyon Lodge was built for summer, with shallow pipes that would freeze in winter.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Check out other gaming options in our best PC games roundup, and swing by our 2025 video game calendar to see what other titles are coming down the pipe later this year.—
Gabriel Zamora,
PC Magazine,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Tun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tun. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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