Tun is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TUN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to store in a large cask
• store (wine or other alcoholic drinks) in a tun.
• To put into tuns, or casks.
• put into or keep in tuns
NOUN:
• a large beer or wine cask.
• an imperial measure of capacity, equal to 4 hogsheads.
• a large marine mollusc which has a rounded barrel-like shell with broad spirals.
• large beer cask
• A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
• A fermenting vat.
• A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
• A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
• An indefinite large quantity.
• A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
• Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
• a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
• a brewer's fermenting vat.

Words related to TUN

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Words that contain TUN

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How to use TUN in a sentence

• At such times it had been the custom to offer a half score of marks or a tun of ale, so this year he proclaimed that a prize of two fat steers should be given to the best bowman.
• Meanwhile Amy, having explored every other part of the castle, went to take another look at the Tun, the dwarf, and the vaults.
• His store of remedies was completed by a tun of the best white-wine vinegar, and a dozen jars of salad-oil.
• In a large vault are kept several enormous hogsheads, one of which is three hundred years old, but they are nothing in comparison with the tun, which itself fills a whole vault.
• The vessel of his bliss to dregs is run, And Heaven will have him taste his other tun.
• A treaty to this effect was concluded, and sealed by the marriage of a Chinese princess with Mao Tun.
• They further recalled the fact that the rulers of the Huns were closely related to the Chinese ruling family, because Mao Tun and his successors had married Chinese princesses.
• They were in just the same desperate situation as when, eight centuries earlier, the Chinese emperor had been beleaguered by Mao Tun.
• When he sang his notes were as the tones emitted from a sort of human tun.
• He took that dame, his own child, who was so dainty and so fair, and thrust her in the tun, whether she would or whether she would not.
• Then on he went over the moist floor until there rose before them in the candlelight, darker than the gloom about it, a gigantic tun.
• Afterwards for to Tun it, you must let it grow Luke-warm, for to advance it.
• Then take it from the fire, and let it stand till it be cold, and then strain it, and so Tun it up, and stop it close.
• If you Tun it in a barrel, to work there, you may hang the Ginger and Limon-peel in it in a bag, till you bottle it, or till it have done working.
• Then take it from the fire, and put it in a cooler, and when it is cold, Tun it up, and let it stand eight months, before you drink it.
• Those who descended through the glass door sank quite gently into a wide silver tun or barrel, which held them all, and could easily have harboured a thousand such little people.
• In his descent John was amazed at the wonderful brilliancy of the walls between which the tun glided down.
• At midnight everything was out of the hill, and John and Elizabeth got into the silver tun and were drawn up.
• The Corporation presented to Fairfax a butt of sack and a tun of French wine in gratitude for the good offices he had rendered them.
• I have heard that this Club, though it consisted but of fifteen Persons, weighed above three Tun.
• It is a flaming bowl, raised high on the jolly tun, and it is wreathed with roses.
• And this caravan route, Sebsevar, Turshiz, Bajistan, Tun, Tebbes, Bahabad, and Yezd, is considered less risky than the somewhat shorter way through the great Kevir.
• Those who descended through the glass point sank quite gently into a wide silver tun, which held them all, and could have easily harboured a thousand such little people.
• In his descent John was amazed at the brilliancy of the walls between which the tun glided down.
• In 3 days we filled about twenty-six tun of water, and then had on board about 30 tun in all.
• Together they proceeded to the minister Wang Tun, who had risen against the Eastern Chin dynasty.
• As Wang Tun was watching the career of the chalice, Hsue disappeared and escaped.
• This act imposed a duty of fifty cents a tun on foreign vessels, and upon our own a duty of only six cents a tun.

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