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Tun
01
a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
tuns
02
a dry, round, lifeless-looking form that some tiny animals, like water bears, change into by drying out their bodies to survive very hard conditions
Examples
The water bear turned into a tun when it dried out.
Lexical Tree
tunnage
tun
