tun
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- noun
- /tʌn/
- Archaic
:
tonel
- Thus, the Mayan date of 8.3.2.10.15 represents 8 b'ak'tuns, 3 k'atuns, 2 tuns, 10 uinals, and 15 days.
- mash tun
Examples
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One restaurant, the Tun Tavern, remained open Monday night, running out of pumpkin ale but otherwise nourishing dozens of people who were hunkered down at a hotel.
Blog text (33) -
The coffin must be bigger Than Heidelberg's large tun
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" The Pee-tuns?
Fiction book (1996) -
Thus, 20 tuns make up a katun, and 20 katuns make up a baktun, or about 400 years.
Academic text (2009) -
"It didn't come with a manual," Lowe says of the custom-made still and mash tun imported from a company called Carl in Germany.
Blog text (23) -
Filling the mash tun with 20 gallons of strike water (which we then lifted atop the brew sculpture).
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The brew sculpture features two tiers of folding tables to support the mash tun containing about 250 pounds of water and grains.
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... working on getting a tasting license, but I bet checking out the rehabbed warehouse and their custom-made still and mash tun, fermenters, and hot water tanks, all imported from Germany.
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The winemaker poured the rich red wine from the tun into bottles for aging.
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The ancient cellar was filled with large tuns of fermented grape juice.
Synonyms
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6.1
A large barrel used to store drinks like wine or whisky
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9.9
A very large wooden barrel used to store wine
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9.9
A large wooden barrel that holds liquids like wine or rum
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3.9
A large wooden barrel for storing or aging wine
A large wooden barrel once used to hold wine or ale
A large wooden barrel used for storing wine or other liquids
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Etymology
Tun comes from an old English word tunne meaning 'large barrel'. Imagine a huge wooden barrel in a ship or cellar; that's a tun, so the word means a very big cask.