Tinned vs Tunned - What's the difference?
tinned | tunned |
(tin)
Coated, or plated with tin.
Packed in a tin can; canned.
Previously prepared; not fresh or new
(tun)
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:
A weight of 2,240 pounds.
An indefinite large quantity.
* (rfdate) Dryden
(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.
To put into tuns, or casks.
As verbs the difference between tinned and tunned
is that tinned is past tense of tin while tunned is past tense of tun.As an adjective tinned
is coated, or plated with tin.tinned
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* * *tunned
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(head)tun
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* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- "He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
- A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ.
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- (Boyle)