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English Dictionary: (tun) by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   TunTun\Tun\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tunned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Tunning}.]
      To put into tuns, or casks. --Boyle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   TunTun\Tun\, n. [AS. tunne. See {Ton} a weight.]
      1. A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like
            a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
  
      2. (Brewing) A fermenting vat.
  
      3. A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two
            pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different
            countries, the tuntundiffers in quantity.
  
      4. (Com.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See {Ton}. [R.]
  
      5. An indefinite large quantity. --Shak.
  
                     A tuntunof man in thy large bulk is writ. --Dryden.
  
      6. A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
  
      7. (Zo[94]l.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied
            genera; -- called also {tun-shell}.
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