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Definition of Tunnelling
1. tunnel [v] - See also: tunnel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunnelling
Literary usage of Tunnelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending by British Columbia Dept. of Mines (1898)
"1500 ft. of tunnelling. Rich galena and carbonates. 1500 ft. of tunnelling and
500 ft. an aerial tramway is about completed. 1000 ft. of tunnelling. of ..."
2. Modern Industrial Progress by Charles Henry Cochrane (1904)
"Tunnelling under rivers is radically different from mountain tunnelling. ...
Tunnelling under East River. has been made an iron or steel ring, somewhat oval ..."
3. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (1824)
".AS the celebrated author of this plan has had the kindness to favour us with a
description and drawings of his new method of tunnelling, which, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1868)
"BIJ AS HALLIDIE, CE On the Application of Machinery to Boring and Tunnelling.
By General HAUPT. The author gave an account of the circumstances under which ..."
5. The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by John Eric Erichsen (1873)
"This practice has, however, been very generally rendered unnecessary by the use
of improved instruments, aided by chloroform inhalations ; and " tunnelling ..."
6. Railway Engineering, Mechanical and Electrical by John Wilton Cuninghame Haldane (1897)
"Tunnelling OPERATIONS OF THE PRESENT. Cuttings and Tunnels Compared—Forces of
Nature as Excavators— Examples of Ancient Tunnelling—Effects of Changes of ..."
7. Railway Engineering, Mechanical and Electrical by John Wilton Cuninghame Haldane (1908)
"Tunnelling OPERATIONS OF THE PRESENT. Cuttings and Tunnels Compared—Forces of
Nature as Excavators— Examples of Ancient Tunnelling—Effects of Changes of ..."