tun
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He added that water bears can retract their limbs and shorten their bodies to enter a state called "tun" when they are particularly stressed out.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
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
Ryan Yarbrough allowed an unearned tun and two hits in two innings while striking out four.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2020
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
“It’s me, tun, Raymie. Raymie Clarke. I visited Isabelle a couple of days ago, and I was going to do a good deed?”
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
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“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
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When tunned, and the beer has done working, cover the bung-hole with paper.
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 Mary Eaton
Next mornin', do', she done sort o' tunned some, an' ain' so sweet.
From Unc' Edinburg A Plantation Echo by Thomas Nelson Page
Thousands of tons of debris avalanched into the chasm below. tunned, deafened, they looked around.
From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various
Here the conversation was tunned to the Lithuanian expedition against the Tartars.
From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Samuel A. Binion
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 Mary Eaton
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
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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 Louisa May Alcott
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 John Roby
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 Anne MacDonell
The beer that is used at noblemen’s tables in their fixed and standing houses is commonly a year old, or peradventure of two years’ tunning or more; but this is not general.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison