tun
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Under extreme conditions, tardigrades may engage in cryptobiosis, a process in which they may become completely dehydrated and roll up into a little ball called a "tun."
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025
It may tun out to be a climactic final act.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
Using his typical mix of nasty sliders and biting curveball with a located fastball to keep hitters honest, he didn’t get a tun of help from his defense, which committed two errors.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
Besides this product the remains of five hogsheads of fish will produce one tun of pumice or fish guano, the best fertilizer known, and worth by itself $20 per tun.”
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2019
Bertha and Nathan send their love, and I send mine, by the bushel, by the barrel, by the tun.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
“Those dunks Jalen had, just playing defense, locking up and spreading out. It tuns the momentum in our favor,” said Amen Thompson, who finished with 16 points of the bench for Houston.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Maryland’s own cats are back, and offering more funkadelic, groovy tuns for either meditation or mellow dancing.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 15, 2017
Giant arms rotate in the mixture to break down the bubbles and stop the froth rising to the hatches, but some is still seeping out from a couple of the wash tuns.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2010
The jury is out on whether the oaken tuns at the Newark brewery imparted any significant flavor to their contents.
From Washington Post
Emanuel, the oldest, today* tuns the dry-cleaning plant.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Here the conversation was tunned to the Lithuanian expedition against the Tartars.
From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Binion, Samuel A.
Having succeeded in stopping the flight of a considerable number of the Araucanians, Lautaro grasped a lance which he tunned against his late master, crying out, "Follow me my countrymen to certain victory."
They were worked in the same manner, and tunned and kept in the same cellar; a proof that the water only could be the cause of the difference.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
Next mornin', do', she done sort o' tunned some, an' ain' so sweet.
From Unc' Edinburg A Plantation Echo by Page, Thomas Nelson
Once when dee wuz 'prominadin-all' down we all's een o' de hall, as he tunned her somebody step on her dress an' to' it.
From Unc' Edinburg A Plantation Echo by Page, Thomas Nelson
But during my second year, my friend Locke Ndzamela, Healdtown’s champion hurdler, encouraged me to take up a new sport: long-distance tunning.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Raspes and Cherries and Bilberies are never to be boiled, but their juyce put into the Liquor, when it is tunning.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
But he soon loved the "tunning sing," and would stand watching it with a grave face, till some funny little idea found vent in still funnier words or caresses.
From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May
Doesn't the beer want tunning, and thou'rt leesing there o' thy haunches; at thy whys and thy wise speeches.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John
How they pull, and there's a stiff sea tunning too.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
