tunnelist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who digs tunnels, especially as a hobby.
Example Sentences
- "The tunnelist showed me the cellar he'd dug beneath his house."
- "Details about the backyard tunnel in Queensland revealed by Calgary police today are scarce — we know it was an alleged storehouse for stolen goods, and little else. But building a 30-foot tunnel is a huge amount of work, even more so if you're trying to keep it secret, as the famous Toronto tunnelist proved."
- "Spending hours heaving dirt and rocks from the ground might seem like an unusual pastime, but it has a history: Hobby tunnelists of yore include the Fifth Duke of Portland, who in the 19th century built an underground ballroom on his property, and, more recently, the so-called mole man of London, who spent 40 years making tunnels before he was discovered."