Lexic.us

Definition of Tunnel

1. Noun. A passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars). "The tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection"

2. Verb. Move through by or as by digging. "Burrow through the forest"

3. Noun. A hole made by an animal, usually for shelter.

4. Verb. Force a way through.

Definition of Tunnel

1. n. . 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.

2. v. t. To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.

Definition of Tunnel

1. Noun. An underground or underwater passage. ¹

2. Noun. A passage through or under some obstacle. ¹

3. Noun. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something, to burrow. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To make a tunnel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tunnel

1. to dig a tunnel (an underground passageway) [v -NELED, -NELING, -NELS or -NELLED, -NELLING, -NELS]

Medical Definition of Tunnel

1. 1. To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests. 2. To catch in a tunnel net. 3. To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river. Origin: Tunneled or Tunnelled; Tunneling or Tunnelling. 1. 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. 2. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel. "And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw." (Spenser) 3. An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like. 4. A level passage 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. Tunnel head, the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for drawing up the earth and stones, for ventilation, lighting, and the like. Origin: F. Tonnelle a semicircular, wagon-headed vault, a tunnel net, an arbor, OF. Also tonnel; dim. Of tonne a tun; so named from its resemblance to a tun in shape. See Ton. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunnel

tunicwise tunier tuniest tuning tuning fork tuning forks tuning in tuning out tunings tunisia

tunisite tunker tunnage tunnages tunned tunnel (current term) tunnel broker tunnel brokers tunnel cells tunnel diode

tunnel disease tunnel rat tunnel rats tunnel vision tunnelable tunnelball tunneled tunneler tunnelers tunneling

Literary usage of Tunnel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1902)
"The authority for tunnel-site locations Is given, and the rights thereunder ... Stat., which reads as follows : "Where a tunnel Is run for the development ..."

2. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Communications in relation to Hoosac tunnel, and also to improvements on state prison. 7 pp. ... Rept. of work on Troy and Greenfield RR and Hoosac tunnel. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The first stimulating demand for modern tunnel construction of any great ... A tunnel for the Saint Quentin Canal in France was built through soft soil in ..."

4. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"Directors were running a tunnel under that knoll to strike the ledge. The tunnel would have to be seventy feet long, and would then strike the ledge at the ..."

5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Tyne tunnel.—Work started In 1961 on the driving of the new road tunnel ... The tunnel itself will be nearly one mile long and has a single 24 ft. ..."

6. A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within by Curtis Holbrook Lindley (1897)
"Where a tunnel is run for the development " of a vein, or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the own- " ers of such tunnel shall have the right of ..."

7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"tunnel site by posting in a conspicuous place and at the entrance to the tunnel a notice of i Heir intent to claim and work the tunnel; that they had ..."

8. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1910)
"8842 E. Plant for Constructing a Concrete tunnel Roadbed. Describes methods of construction used on the second Bergen Hill tunnel, by the DL & WRR, ..."

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