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gunnies Cornwall.|ˈgʌnɪs|
Also (in Dicts.) gunnis(s.
A crevice in a mine or lode; ‘the vacant space left where the lode has been removed’ (Raymond); hence (app.) taken as a measure of breadth or width. (By some recent writers used as pl.)
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 168 A Gunnies, or hollows of a Mine filled with water. Ibid. 322 Gunnies means breadth or width. A single Gunnies is three feet wide; a Gunnies and a half is four feet and a half; and a double Gunnies is six feet wide. [1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Gurmies. Hence in some recent Dicts. Gurmie.] 1860Eng. & For. Mining Gloss., Cornwall, Gunnies, levels or workings. 1875J. H. Collins Metal Mining 44 Stuff may be brought from the surface to fill in the vacant spaces or ‘gunnies’. |