tunnel
noun
an underground passage.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Morris Blood is tunnelling on the Pilot branch this morning; it's bad up there, but the main line is clear from end to end.
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)