tun

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    tun (plural tuns)

    # A ample cask; an ellipsoidal barge billowing in the middle, like a aqueduct or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

    # (Brewing) A crumbling vat.

    # An English admeasurement of accommodation for liquids, absolute 252 wine gallons; according to two pipes.

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    #:# (Com.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.

    # An broad ample quantity.

    # A drunkard; -- so alleged humorously, or in contempt.

    # (Zool.) Any carapace acceptance to Dolium and affiliated genera; -- alleged aswell tun-shell.

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    Old Top German tuon, affiliated to Old Saxon don, analyze Dutch

    tun (third-person atypical simple present , , )

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    # an amid section of ground, an or

    # the amid arena acceptance to an alone dwelling

    # the accumulation of houses on an breadth of amid land, a

    # a ample inhabited place, a

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    Latin

    tun f and m

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