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Keg vs Tun - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between keg and tun

is that keg is a round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer while tun is a large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

As verbs the difference between keg and tun

is that keg is {{cx|transitive|lang=en}} To store in a keg while tun is to put into tuns, or casks.

keg

English

(wikipedia keg)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
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    • Synonyms

    * barrel

    Derived terms

    * keg stand

    Verb

  • To store in a keg.
  • * 2011 , Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas (page 116)
    • He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.
  • * 2015 , Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew (page 228)
    • Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.

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    tun

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
  • (brewing) A fermenting vat.
  • An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p. 205:
    • Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
  • A weight of 2,240 pounds.
  • An indefinite large quantity.
    • "He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
    This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this, Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim Hear no more of you. " -- Shakespeare
  • * (rfdate) Dryden
    • A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ.
  • (archaic, humorous, or, derogatory) A drunkard.
  • (zoology) Any shell belonging to and allied genera; called also tun-shell.
  • A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.

    • Verb

  • To put into tuns, or casks.
    • (Boyle)

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