Now local. [f. TUN sb. + DISH sb.] A wooden dish or shallow vessel with a tube at the bottom fitting into the bung-hole of a tun or cask, forming a kind of funnel used in brewing; hence gen. = FUNNEL sb.1 1.
1388–9. Abingdon Acc. (Camden), 57. iij scale, j tundys.
1573. in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911), 437. Making … a forme and a tundishe for the buttrye.
1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., III. ii. 182. For filling a bottle with a Tunne-dish.
1756. Matthews, in Phil. Trans., XLIX. 549. These pits … growing gradually narrower to a center, in shape of a funnel or tun-dish.
1795. Sir J. Dalrymple, Lett. to Admiralty, 3. The froth, that is, the Yeast, is prevented by a tun-dish from running over.
1892. Greener, Breech-Loader, 176. The shot must be poured in through a tundish, and preferably counted with the ‘Greener Shot Counter,’ or weighed to measure.
