Definitions for tun

tun tun

Spelling: [tuhn]
IPA: /tʌn/

Tun is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in tun (ntu).

Definitions for tun

noun

  1. a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
  2. a measure of liquid capacity, usually equivalent to 252 wine gallons.

verb (used with object)

  1. to put into or store in a tun or tuns.

Origin of tun

before 900; (noun) Middle English tunne, Old English; cognate with Dutch ton, German Tonne (Old Norse tunna; (v.) late Middle English, derivative of the noun

Examples for tun

To every gallon put four pounds of good Lisbon sugar, tun it immediately, lay the bung lightly on, and leave it to ferment itself.

He had a paunch like a tun, triumphal, like an Abbate Asinico.

The celebrated great tun of Heidelberg is in one of the cellars of the castle.

Do you pronounce 'ten' as if it were written 'tun', or 'men' as if written 'mun'?

So much for the disposal of one tun; but what about the five others?

This accounts for the second tun—but we have still other four to account for.

At Ferriby the pump conveyed from the wharf to the tun, here it was from the tun to the wharf.

The question is, where was the "tun" or village on the Brun?

And that trick he did thrice, standing on the tun as it came and went.

A second tun was constructed in 1664, and this held six hundred hogsheads.

Word Value for tun
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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