noun
- an instrument consisting of an inverted cone with a hole at the small end, or a tapering or cylindrical tube with a wide, cone-shaped mouth, for pouring liquids and powders into containers that have small openings
- a thing shaped like a funnel
- a cylindrical smokestack, as of a steamship
- a chimney or flue
Origin:
ME fonel < (prob. via an OFr form) Prov fonilh, enfonilh < L fundibulum, infundibulum, a funnel < infundere, to pour in < in-, in- + fundere, to pour: see found
intransitive verb, transitive verb funneled or funnelled, funneling or funnelling
- to move or pour through a funnel
- to form in the shape of a funnel
- to move into a central channel or to a central point