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单词 tunneller
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tunnellertunnelern.

Brit. /ˈtʌnl̩ə/, U.S. /ˈtənl̩ər/
Etymology: < tunnel v. + -er suffix1.
1. One who catches birds with a tunnel-net. ? Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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