Word Finder - tun

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

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A fermenting vat.

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An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.

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A weight of 2,240 pounds.

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An indefinite large quantity.

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A drunkard.

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Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.

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The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.

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To put into tuns, or casks.

These officials seem to have been located in royal villages (cyninges tun, villa regalis) or fortresses (cyninges burg, orbs regis), which served as centres and meeting-places (markets, &c.) for the inhabitants of the district, and to which their dues, both in payments and services had to be rendered.

The whole group of buildings stood in an enclosure (tun) surrounded by a stockade (burg), which perhaps rested on an earthwork, though this is disputed.

This venerable dram is from the family owned distillery at Ballindalloch that has the largest mash tun in Scotland.

Among the points of interest within it are the old chapel of 1318, with Leopold's tomb and the altar of Verdun, dating from the 12th century, the treasury and relic-chamber, the library with 30,000 volumes and many MSS., the picture gallery, the collection of coins, the theological hall, and the winecellar, containing an immense tun like that at Heidelberg.

In a cellar entered from the courtyard is the famous Great Tun of Heidelberg.

The derivation from the Saxon cesc (ash) and tun (an enclosed place) accounts for the earliest orthography Estun.

The defendants agreed that each of them was bound to pay the tun, and they put themselves in mercy.

Likewise, Calleman believes that the 360-day tun is the key to Mayan sacred time, even tho it factors into 12 x 30.

The spent grain from the mash tun is taken to a local small holding & given to sheep & cattle.

The lauter tun improves upon the mash tun in terms of surface area by increasing the diameter of the vessel.

The new artisan makers of the okimono struck out a line for themselves, one influenced more by the naturalistic and popular schools than by the classical art, and the quails of Kamejo, the tortoises of Seimin, the dragons of Tun and TOryu, and in recent years the falcons and the peacocks of Suzuki Chokichi, are the joy of the European collector.

We then entered the tun room containing ten wooden washbacks, made out of Douglas Fir.

Most typos in this book are small compared to other books you may tun in to.

The mash tun, traditionally used in Britain, is integrated to serve as a masher as well as a vessel for wort separation.

Foods that Fight Pain and Tun Off the Fat Genes are examples.

All this took place at the Tun Tavern and Robert Mullan, the tavern's owner, became captain and recruiter.