tun

IPA: tˈʌn

A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
(brewing) A fermenting vat.
(historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
(figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
(archaic, humorous or derogatory) Synonym of drunkard: a person who drinks excessively.
Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
A surname from Burmese.

Examples of "tun" in Sentences

Wokings, and Wellington the 'tun' of the Wellings.
The fraught of these prouisions for a man, will be about halfe a tun, which is12 l. 10s. 10d.
-- A tun is a certain measure for liquids, as for wine, and its capacity equals two pipes, or four hogsheads, or 252 gallons.
Thus Ea-ton, a name scattered all along the Thames, from its very source to the last reaches, is the "tun" by the water or stream.
I thought the name was Anglo-Saxon for the topographical feature of the Humber River and "tun" or "ton", meaning farm or homestead.
If drought strikes, they essentially shut down their metabolism and shrivel up into a ball called a tun, waiting until water returns.
When the block-house and palisade enclosed the farm of a single settler the "tun," in its still earlier sense, was even more nearly reproduced.
Later the village was surrounded by a wall called a tun, and by a transfer of terms the village frequently came to be called a mark, or tun, later changed to town.
Back on the local (non-EC2) workstation, set up the software: sudo apt-get install - y openvpn sudo modprobe tun sudo iptables - I OUTPUT - o tun+ - j ACCEPT sudo iptables - I INPUT - i tun+ - j ACCEPT
In the case of Sam Adams, where the production of beer isn't that large, the brew kettle is usually just the mash kettle or the mash tun, which is rinsed out in preparation for the addition of the wort.