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tun

tun · tuns · tunob

бочка

A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and…A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)

/tʌn/

Meaning

12 senses

A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
бо́чкаbóčka
A fermenting vat.
(historical)A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
(figuratively)Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
(UK, dialectal)A chimney.
A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
(Malaysia)A respectful term of address to royalties and certain award recipients
(archaic, derogatory, humorous)Synonym of drunkard: a person who drinks excessively.
(obsolete)A small silver cup holding half a pint, sometimes having a whistle in the handle that could not be blown until the cup was empty.

More definitions

a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals

Translations

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Русский

By meaning 1

a large, oblong cask:

Origin

From Middle English tunne, tonne (“cask, barrel”), from Old English tunne (“tun, cask, bar

From Middle English tunne, tonne (“cask, barrel”), from Old English tunne (“tun, cask, barrel”), from Proto-Germanic *tunnǭ, *tunnō (“tun, barrel, cask”), from Latin tunna, probably of Gaulish origin.

Borrowed from Malay tun.

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