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† tunner Obs. exc. dial.|ˈtʌnə(r)|
Forms: 4 tonour, 5 -owre, tunnowre, 6 tuner, 6– tunner.
[f. tun n. or v. + -er1.]
1. An instrument for tunning liquor; a funnel.
1337in Riley Memorials (1868) 200 [One iron spit, 3d,; one frying-pan, 1d. one] tonour, 1d. c1440Promp. Parv. 496/2 Tonowre, or fonel, infusorium. Ibid., Tunnowre, idem quod tonowre. 1552–3in Midl. Counties Hist. Coll. I. 233 A cherne a tuner a hopp iiij kytts. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Tunner, a wooden funnel. ‘Urn down, Jack, to farm' Perry's and borry he's tunner.’
†2. One who tuns liquor. Obs.
1598Stow Surv. 192 The successors of those Vintners..were all incorporated by the name of wine tunners.
So ˈtunnery, a place in which liquor is tunned.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 444 The tunnery, fishery, and salt produce a good revenue. 1869W. Molyneux Burton on Trent 250 [The cask] is thence transmitted to the tunnery to be refilled. |