单词 | tunneller |
释义 | tunnellertunnelern. 1. One who catches birds with a tunnel-net. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun] > using snare or net trammeller1581 tunneller1611 limer1872 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tonnelleur, a Tunneller; a Taker of Partridges with a tunnell. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tunnel.., a sort of Net to catch Partridges. Tunneller, one that goes a Fowling with such a Net. 2. One who excavates a tunnel; transferred a burrowing animal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > terrestrial animal > on or under the ground > that burrows digger1585 minerc1614 tunnelist1799 burrower1854 fossorial1855 tunneller1860 fodient1879 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > earth-movers, etc. > [noun] > one who makes tunnels tunnel-workman1843 tunneller1860 tunnel-borer1877 tunnel-man1897 tunnel-worker1903 rock-hog1909 1860 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1859 213 Our little tunneler [Gastrochæna, a bivalve mollusc] sets to work with all the ardor of youth. 1871 R. A. Proctor Light Sci. 153 Tunnellers from one end have sometimes..failed to meet those from the other. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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