Brewer's: Tun

Any vessel, even a goblet or cup. (Anglo-Saxon tunne.)

“Tun, such a cup as jugglers use to show divers tricks by.” —Minshou: Spanish Dictionary.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Tunding
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