Definition of tunnext
as in barrel
an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages in olden days an English ship's capacity was measured by the number of tuns of wine it could hold

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Recent Examples of tun Under stressful conditions, with cysteine unavailable to the free radicals being produced, the tardigrades couldn’t form tuns. Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024 The agaves are cut into one inch cubes and then cooked for seven hours in a heated mash tun equipped with a stream jacket. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021 In a commercial brewhouse, the grain is cracked in a mill then sent through a grist case, which dispenses it into a vessel called the mash tun. oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2020 Forks clank down, sleeves roll up, and diners file into the abutting bodega to fill their glasses with cool, foamy sagardo straight from the 5,000-gallon tun. Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2018 All the remaining grain falls to the bottom of the stainless steel tun, creating a grain bed through which the liquid passes on its way back to the mash kettle. Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 31 May 2017
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Noun
  • The results might not be there, but the at-bats and the barrels are still there.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2026
  • Still, to understand just how effective this blockade has been, analysts point to the dwindling amounts of Iranian crude stored on tankers near the coast of Malaysia, where millions of barrels of crude are illicitly transferred between tankers every day.
    Adina Renner, New York Times, 15 May 2026
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  • These included pipe supports, wall thimbles, end fittings, and elements of the runner system used in the Fixed-Kaplan S-turbine design.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
  • An inspector can identify polybutylene where pipes are visible and accessible, such as in a crawl space or at the water heater connections and meter.
    Ryan Brennan May 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026

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“Tun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tun. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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