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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.
The 1707 wine gallon is the basis of the United States' gallon, as well as other measures. [3] The Imperial gallon was defined with yet another set of temperature and pressure values (62 °F (17 °C) and 30.0 inHg (102 kPa)). To convert a number of wine gallons to the equivalent number of Imperial gallons, multiply by 0.833111.
[nb 3] The Queen Anne wine gallon of 231 cubic inches was adopted in 1707 and still serves as the definition of the US gallon. A US tun is then the volume or of a rectangular cuboid with dimensions 36 by 38.5 by 42 inches. When the imperial system was introduced the tun was redefined in the UK and colonies as 210 imperial gallons.
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A hogshead of brandy was approximately equal to 56–61 gallons (0.255–0.277 m 3). [ citation needed ] Eventually, a hogshead of wine came to be 63 US gallons (52.5 imp gal ; 238.5 L ), while a hogshead of beer or ale is 54 gallons (250 L if old beer/ale gallons, 245 L if imperial).