Definitions for tuns

tuns tun

Spelling: [tuhn]
IPA: /tʌn/

Tuns is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in tuns (nstu).

Definitions for tuns

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 tuns

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 tuns

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for tuns
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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