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.
Definitions
- noun. A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
- noun. A fermenting vat.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
- noun. An indefinite large quantity.
- noun. A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
- noun. Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
- intransitive verb. To put into tuns, or casks.
- noun. a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tun:
Common word forms
tuns, tunal, tuned, tuner, tunes, tunful, tuning, tunned, tunner, tunable, tunning
Words from these letters
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