Usually means: Large cask for storing liquids.
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  1. tun: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Tun, tun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tun: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tun: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tun, tu'n, tun: Wordnik
  7. Tun, tun: Wiktionary
  8. tun: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tun: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Tun: Dictionary.com
  12. TUN (product standard), Tun (unit), Tun (volume), Tun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Tun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. tun: Rhymezone
  16. Tun, tun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Tun: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  19. Tun: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. tun: Free Dictionary
  21. tun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Tun, tun: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. tun: Dictionary.com
  24. tun: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Tun: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tun: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TUN: Acronym Finder
  2. TUN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tun: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tun: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Tun)

noun:  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.)
noun:  (brewing) A fermenting vat.
noun:  (historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
noun:  Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
noun:  (figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
noun:  (archaic, humorous or derogatory) Synonym of drunkard: a person who drinks excessively.
noun:  Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
noun:  The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
verb:  (transitive) To put into tuns, or casks.
noun:  A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
noun:  A surname from Burmese.

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