Any vessel, even a goblet or cup. (Anglo-Saxon tunne.)
“Tun, such a cup as jugglers use to show divers tricks by.”—Minsheu: Spanish Dictionary.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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