Crossword clues for tunnelling
tunnelling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tunnel \Tun"nel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tunneledor Tunnelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tunneling or Tunnelling.]
To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
--Derham.To catch in a tunnel net.
To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
Wiktionary
alt. (present participle of tunnel English) vb. (present participle of tunnel English)
WordNet
n. a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars); "the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection"
a hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter [syn: burrow]
v. move through by or as by digging; "burrow through the forest" [syn: burrow]
force a way through
[also: tunnelling, tunnelled]
See tunnel
Usage examples of "tunnelling".
All the time he was gently stroking the back of her neck, her armpits, and her breasts an inch below the nipples, every place where she was most responsive, before tunnelling under her bikini bottom until he could feel her heart bashing against his and her thighs quivering with delight.
Long bands of muscle writhed around her chin as if fat worms were tunnelling through her veins.
Birds flittered about in the upper boughs, uninspiring dun-coloured bat-analogues with long, powerful forelimbs for tunnelling into the ground.
A lot of them followed roads, nestled in utility conduits along the side of the carbon concrete, but many more took off across the land, laid by mechanoids tunnelling through forests and under rivers, with nothing on the surface to indicate their existence.
For those unfamiliar with the mechanics of dwarf tunnelling, I shall endeavour to explain them as tastefully as possible.
As Jack had been muddy after his tunnelling, she had even given him a bath, and was drying him in front of a glowing crackling fire, as she chatted to Arthur who was peering in through the window.
Last thing at night when she lost control of her thoughts, she dreamt she was a little mole (with its blind eyes, pink hands and lack of waist -the two of them had a lot in common) and she was tunnelling under the gates of Valhalla, beneath the River Fleet, not stopping until she joined the other molehills on the lawn of Magpie Cottage.
The Daroth are tunnelling beneath us and you believe the city is about to fall.
Somehow the bum-flap on his specially adapted tunnelling trousers flopped open, presenting the commander with a lovely view of his rear end.
His attention, however, had been distracted by the challenge of tunnelling past those plugs, and he made no effort to investigate the lower reaches of the descending corridor (which he ended up using as a dump for the tons of stone his diggers removed from the core of the pyramid).
And though there have been all manner of hackings and tunnellings in search of further passageways (in the floors and walls of the King’s and Queen’s Chambers, for example), the plugs at the base of the Ascending Corridor have never subsequently been disturbed.