vbl. sb. [f. TUN v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TUN.
1. Putting into or storing in a tun or tuns. Also with up.
14[?]. [see tunning-dish in 3].
a. 1529. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 130. Wyth all theyr myght runnynge … To haue of her tunnynge.
1577. Harrison, England, II. vi., in Holinshed, I. 95/1. The bere … is commonlye of a yeare olde (or … of two yeres tunning or more).
1659. Worlidge, Syst. Agric., vii. § 12. 120. The best Vessels for the tunning up of Cider.
1766. Compl. Farmer, s.v. Cyder, At first tunning they do not fill their hogsheads to the bung, but leave an empty space to receive a pailful of fresh cyder from the press.
1822. Imison, Sc. & Art, II. 159. It is mixed with yeast … in order to excite the vinous fermentation. This process is called tunning.
2. Of rabbits: see TUN v. 3.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, III. 510. The main Art of keeping these Creatures, is to preserve them from Tunning, or being Pot-belly’d.
3. attrib. Used in or for tunning liquor, as tunning cask, tub, vessel; † tunning dish, = TUN-DISH; † tunning mell, ? a ‘mell’ or mallet used to knock in the bung of a ton or cask.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Tunning-cask, a cask in which fermented ale is stored when racked off.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 574/15. Colum, a colyndore; or a *tunnyng dysch.
1611. Cotgr., Sibille, a tunning and tasting dish in the time of Vintage.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 320/1. A Tunning Dish, some term it a Fulling or Filling Dish; for by the help of it Liquor is poured into Vessels with small holes.
1362–3. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 565. In j *Tunnyngmell et ij duzayns de ciphis ligneis empt. ij d. ob.
1567. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees), I. 266. A *tonning tubb, 2 tonn for bread.
1504. Bury Wills (Camden), 101. All brewyng ledys,… brasse bruyng vessells, *tonnyng vessells.
