gunniesn.
/ˈɡʌnɪs/ Cornwall.
A crevice in a mine or lode; ‘the vacant space left where the lode has been removed’ (Raymond); hence (apparently) taken as a measure of breadth or width. (By some recent writers used as plural.)
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1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 168 A Gunnies, or hollows of a Mine filled with water.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 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.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Gurmies. Hence in some recent Dicts. Gurmie.]
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Cornwall Terms) Gunnies, levels or workings.
1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) vii. 44 Stuff may be brought from the surface to fill in the vacant spaces or ‘gunnies’.
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