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The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey.It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used.
The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Medieval Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, [1] oil or honey. Typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used. [2] The modern tun is about 954 litres.
A hogshead (abbreviated "hhd", plural "hhds") is a large cask of liquid (or, less often, of a food commodity). It refers to a specified volume, measured in either imperial or US customary measures, primarily applied to alcoholic beverages, such as wine, ale, or cider.
The butt is one in a series of English wine cask units, being half of a tun. [citation needed] See also. English wine cask units § Pipe or butt; References
Traditional oak barrels made by Chilean cooperage Tonelería Nacional Mackmyra barrels at Hackeberga Castle Modern stainless steel casks and kegs outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham, England Wooden wine barrel at an exhibition in Croatia. A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is ...
18 wine gallons or 1 ⁄ 7 wine pipe Wine barrel 31.5 wine gallons or 1 ⁄ 2 wine hogshead Tierce 42 wine gallons, 1 ⁄ 2 puncheon or 1 ⁄ 3 wine pipe Wine hogshead 2 wine barrels, 63 wine gallons [18] or 1 ⁄ 4 wine tun Puncheon or tertian 2 tierce, 84 wine gallons or 1 ⁄ 3 wine tun Wine pipe or butt 2 wine hogshead, 3 tierce, 7 roundlet ...