TUN

noun a fermenting vat.

2. tun ·noun an indefinite large quantity.

3. tun ·vi to put into tuns, or casks.

4. tun ·noun a drunkard;

— so called humorously, or in contempt.

5. tun ·noun a weight of 2,240 pounds. ·see ton.

6. tun ·noun any shell belonging to dolium and allied genera;

— called also tun-shell.

7. tun ·noun a large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

8. tun ·noun a certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. in different countries, the tun differs in quantity.