Tun

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

2. 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 tun differs in quantity.

4. A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton. [R.]

5. An indefinite large quantity. Shak. A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ. Dryden.

6. A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.

7. Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To put into tuns, or casks. Boyle.