TUN


Meaning of TUN in English

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n. & v. --n. 1 a large beer or wine cask. 2 a brewer's fermenting-vat. 3 a measure of capacity, equal to 252 wine gallons. --v.tr. (tunned, tunning) store (wine etc.) in a tun. [OE tunne f. med.L tunna, prob. of Gaulish orig.]

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