tunnel

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1. tunnel - Noun

2. tunnel - Verb

Meaning

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; a funnel.

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.

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.

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

To catch in a tunnel net.

To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.

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burrow through the forest Source: Internet

According to European diplomats, Britain is pushing to intensify negotiations and enter a final phase known as the "tunnel" -- in which all communication outside the negotiation room is strictly curtailed. Source: Internet

According to Palestinian television news, "Israeli sources said that a gold bell had been found in a tunnel, belonging to what they call the Second Temple Period. Source: Internet

According to the Garuda Purana, a soul after leaving the body travels through a very long and dark tunnel towards the South. Source: Internet

After a couple of minutes, Bouwmeester was taken out on a stretcher through a tunnel next to the Blues bench and brought to a hospital. Source: Internet

A century later, most of these elevated railway sections have been replaced by cut or tunnel routing. Source: Internet

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