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noun
1.
an underground passage.
2.
a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a city, mountain, river, harbor, or the like.
3.
an approximately horizontal gallery or corridor in a mine.
4.
the burrow of an animal.
5.
Dialect. a funnel.
verb (used with object)
6.
to construct a passageway through or under: to tunnel a mountain.
7.
to make or excavate (a tunnel or underground passage): to tunnel a passage under a river.
8.
to move or proceed by or as if by boring a tunnel: The river tunneled its way through the mountain.
9.
to pierce or hollow out, as with tunnels.
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Tunnelled
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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verb (used without object)
10.
to make a tunnel or tunnels: to tunnel through the Alps.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English tonel (noun) < Middle French tonele, tonnelle funnel-shaped net, feminine of tonnel cask, diminutive of tonne tun; see -elle
1400–50; late Middle English tonel (noun) < Middle French tonele, tonnelle funnel-shaped net, feminine of tonnel cask, diminutive of tonne tun; see -elle
Related forms
tun·nel·er; especially British, tun·nel·ler, noun
tun·nel·like, adjective
sub·tun·nel, noun
un·tun·neled, adjective
un·tun·nelled, adjective
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Word Origin & History
tunnel
c.1440, "funnel-shaped net for catching birds," from M.Fr. tonnelle "net," or tonel "cask," dim. of O.Fr. tonne "tun, cask for liquids," possibly from the same source as O.E. tunne (see tun). Sense of "tube, pipe" (1545) developed in Eng. and led to sense of "underground passage,"
EXPANDwhich is first attested 1765, about five years after the first modern tunnel was built (on the Grand Trunk Canal in England). This sense subsequently has been borrowed into Mod.Fr. (1878). The earlier native word for this was mine. Meaning "burrow of an animal" is from 1873. The verb meaning "excavate underground" is first attested 1795. Tunnel vision first recorded 1949. The fig. phrase light at the end of the tunnel is attested from 1922.
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Medical Dictionary
tunnel tun·nel (tŭn'əl)
n.
A passage located through or under a barrier.
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