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tunneller

Variant of tunnel

noun

  1. Obsolete
    1. a flue
    2. a funnel
  2. a passageway, as through a mountain or under a body of water, as for automotive or rail traffic
  3. an animal's burrow
  4. any tunnel-like passage, as one in a mine

transitive verb tunneled or tunnelled, tunneling or tunnelling

  1. to dig (a passage) in the form of a tunnel
  2. to make a tunnel through or under
  3. to make (one's way) by digging a tunnel

intransitive verb

  1. to make a tunnel
  2. Physics to pass through a normally impassable barrier or insulator: electrons tunnel through semiconductors

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