A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
(mining) A levelpassage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
(finance) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
(computing) A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creationdate, even after being deleted and recreated.
“He escaped execution as a spy and spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft III, including spending time as a tunneler for the Great Escape.”
“The SPBG was passed inside the tunneler until it was re-exposed through the abdmoninal incision.”
“Yamada D, Imura O, Shi K, Shibuya T Effect of tunneler dung beetles on cattle dung decomposition, soil nutrients and herbage growth.”
tunnelball
(game) A children's game in which players stand in line with their feet apart, making a tunnel with their legs, down which the lead player propels a ball back to the last player, who runs with it to the front of the line and repeats; played competitively between teams for speed, or by a single team for recreation or exercise.
“All moles are insectivores and all of them are great tunnelers.”
“The tunnelers were all hard Irishmen, good workers on 12 hour shifts and well paid.”
“The probe breakthrough confirmed that French and British tunnelers were within striking distance of completing the first tunnel under the English Channel.”
