† 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.
| 1337 in Riley Memorials (1868) 200 [One iron spit, 3d,; one frying-pan, 1d. one] tonour, 1d. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 496/2 Tonowre, or fonel, infusorium. Ibid., Tunnowre, idem quod tonowre. 1552–3 in Midl. Counties Hist. Coll. I. 233 A cherne a tuner a hopp iiij kytts. 1888 Elworthy 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.
| 1598 Stow 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.
| 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. II. 444 The tunnery, fishery, and salt produce a good revenue. 1869 W. Molyneux Burton on Trent 250 [The cask] is thence transmitted to the tunnery to be refilled. |