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tun
tun is a 3-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 5 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
- 2noun
A fermenting vat.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
- 5noun
An indefinite large quantity.
- 6noun
A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
- 7noun
Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
- 8intransitive verb
To put into tuns, or casks.
- 9noun
a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
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