tunnel
noun
an underground passage.
tunneller
-
a word derived from
tunnel.
Example Sentences
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One tunneller requested a cup of tea and a sandwich.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
During her decades at sea, Winner was generally a tunneller, commissioned to bore through layers of undersea rock and sludge, after which a purpose-built tanker would float in and slurp up any finds.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2017
"I am a tunneller," he said, "I must look after the others first."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2015
Hackett is the only tunneller to receive the VC during World War One.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2015
By no means: the Anathema Tachytes is an energetic tunneller, no doubt, but, after all, is incapable of performing so great a labour in so short a time.
From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
