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Meaning of tun in English

tun
noun [ C ]
 old-fashioned
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/tʌn/ UK
/tʌn/
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a large round wooden container for beer or wine:
a cartload of wine tuns
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(Definition of tun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge
University Press)
EXAMPLES of tun
tun
The process of transferring the wort includes running water over the grains in the lauter tun to extract as
much of the sugars as possible.
From Huffington Post
Most all-grain brewers make their own "mash tun" (steeping vessel) out of picnic coolers, copper pipe,
and various hoses and valves from the hardware store.
From Slate Magazine
This is a distilling term for the combination of all the grain (malted barley, rye, wheat, etc) with water as
it's heated in a tun.
From Gizmodo
If you make them into a fine powder, you get a kind of dough and a big dense impenetrable lump of goo
sitting in the tun.
From Phys.Org
Think of a lauter tun as a giant kettle with a colander built inside to catch the grains as the wort filters into
the bottom, the hot liquor back.
From Huffington Post
Finally, for the wordcalzada there is the termbe tun.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
In this discussion, the meaning and significance of termsbe tun, buth be, buthbil be, cochbaben be,
c2hibal be, haban be, andnoh beand their relationship tozac bewill be examined.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
His research for a phonetic and therefore more objective reading of the plant-like element that often
precedes the tun glyph in texts on stelae produced the spelling la-ka-ma.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Tun opened this and motioned us to enter.
From Project Gutenberg
Workmen who came for a load were astonished to discover one end of a string of tubing dangling in
the tun.
From Project Gutenberg
At the time we have made the brothers' acquaintance, they had lived together in the shoemaker's back
building, the so-called "tun," about five years.
From Project Gutenberg
But as he intended to stay in the tun for the day and night, he hoped at any rate to hear when she returned.
From Project Gutenberg
He had intended to go up to the tun, an uncontrollable longing drew him toward the old room.
From Project Gutenberg
The cellar was empty except for a large wooden tun or cask which reached almost to the ceiling, and a
gunmetal hand pump.
From Project Gutenberg
It contained a similar large tun with a pipe leading down the passage under the wharf, on which was a
pump.
From Project Gutenberg
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not
represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its
licensors.
What is the pronunciation of tun?

Translations of tun
in Chinese (Traditional)
（裝啤酒、葡萄酒等的）大酒桶…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
（装啤酒、葡萄酒等的）大酒桶…
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