Word Finder - tuns

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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.

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A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.

July 18 th 1896 The Three Tuns, Glemsford, has been burnt down together with a fiber shed adjoining.

The Admiral was of 600. tuns, and the Vise Admirall of the same burthen.

Their vessel, laden with 116 tuns of wine, had suffered shipwreck near Shoreham.

The liquid wort is then transferred to large vats called mash tuns.

Although lauter tuns are widely employed for wort separation, some large-volume brewers prefer mash filters.

These are the largest mash tuns in the Pernod-Ricard group of 11 distilleries.

Gaze into traditional mash tuns, see the modern Millenium Brewhouse and contrast historic steam engines with the automated equipment in use today.

In 1901, 1985 imperial tuns of oil were shipped from Gallipoli for abroadtwo-thirds to the United Kingdom, one-third to Russiaand 666 to Italian ports; while in 1904 the figures were reversed, 1633 tuns going to Italian ports, and only 945 tuns to foreign ports.

How the Saracens, when they took him prisoner, he being half dead with a complication of diseases, kindly left him "un mien couverture d'ecarlate" which his mother had given him, and which he put over him, having made a hole therein and bound it round him with a cord; how when he came to Acre in a pitiable condition an old servant of his house presented himself, and "brought me clean white hoods and combed my hair most comfortably"; how he bought a hundred tuns of wine and served it - the best first, according to high authority - well-watered to his private soldiers, somewhat less watered to the squires, and to the knights neat, but with a suggestive phial of the weaker liquid to mix "si comme ils vouloient" - these are the details in which he seems to take greatest pleasure, and for readers six hundred years after date perhaps they are not the least interesting details.