单词 | tunneller |
释义 | tunneller, -eler|ˈtʌnələ(r)| [f. tunnel v. + -er1.] 1. One who catches birds with a tunnel-net. ? Obs.
1611Cotgr., Tonnelleur, a Tunneller; a Taker of Partridges with a tunnell. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tunnel.., a sort of Net to catch Partridges. Tunneller, one that goes a Fowling with such a Net. 2. One who excavates a tunnel; transf. a burrowing animal.
1860P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Instit. 1859, 213 Our little tunneler [Gastrochæna, a bivalve mollusc] sets to work with all the ardor of youth. 1871Proctor Light Sc. 153 Tunnellers from one end have sometimes..failed to meet those from the other. |

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