funneln.¹

Brit.

/ˈfʌnl/, U.S.

/ˈfən(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English fonel(le, phonel, 1500s–1600s funell, 1500s–1700s funnell, (1500s fonnell, funnelle), 1600s– funnel.

Etymology: Middle English fonel (15th cent.; a supposed earlier example belongs to funel n., rope), apparently < Old French *founil (whence Breton founil). Modern Provencal dialects have founil, enfounilh, which are probably corrupted adoptions of Latin infundibulum, < infundĕre to pour in (the Latin word may have been familiar from its use in pharmacy); the unrecorded Old French form, and the Spanish fonil, Portuguese funil, may be adoptions from Provencal.

a. A cone-shaped vessel usually fitted at the apex with a short tube, by means of which a liquid, powder, or the like, may be conducted through a small opening.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > funnel

tunner1337

tunder1343

tundish1388

funnel1402

tunnela1529

fundible1579

funible1654

infundible1657

filler1782

1402–3 Durham MS. Alm. Roll. j funell.

1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 12988 He me gaff..Thys sak also, and thys phonel Wyth wych my wynes I vp tonne.

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxxvii. 155 A gret old oon..þat a foul sak, deep and perced, heeld with hire teeth, and hadde with inne it a fonelle [Fr. entonnour].

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 170/1 Fonel, or tonowre, fusorium.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xii. 20 The parfume..taken into the mouth through the pipe of a funnell, or tunnell.

1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 18 With a funnell, I make shift to fill The narrow vessel.

1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory iii. 86 Make a Paper Funnel, which put in the Hole of the Globe [etc.].

1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 202 To ev'ry Mouth by Turns the Funnel guide, Let Streams of Wine, thro' pewter Channels, glide.

1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 221 The whole fire-box is then filled up with fuel by means of a funnel.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 549 The juice being poured into the tun by means of a funnel.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 49 A circular metallic funnel for catching the rain, and a vessel for storing it.

figurative.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 228. ⁋2 The Inquisitive are the Funnels of Conversation..They are the Channels through which all the Good and Evil that is spoken in Town are conveyed.1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 June 2/1 If they..become the ‘animated funnels’ of the executives of their associations.1890 Spectator 16 Aug. 202/2 The funnel through which legislation can trickle down to the country is..nearly blocked up.

b. spec. in Casting. The hole through which the metal is poured into a mould. Cf. gate n.¹, ingate n.¹ and adv., tedge n.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > casting equipment > mould > hole for pouring in metal

gate1678

sprue1833

ingate1858

tedge1858

funnel1875

horn gate1909

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 925/1.

c. Anatomy and Zoology. A funnel-shaped organ or limb; an infundibulum.

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the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > having specific structure

button1600

lath1633

marsupiuma1637

funnel1712

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > tube or canal

conduit1340

pipec1385

channela1387

porea1398

canal?a1425

cannel?1553

strait1558

canaliculus1661

tube1661

duct1667

tubule1677

ductus1699

funnel1712

cannule1719

infundibulum1799

meatus1800

tubulet1826

tubulus1826

canalicule1839

canalization1840

ductule1883

1712 R. Blackmore Creation vi. 294 Some [muscles] the long Funnel's curious Mouth extend Thro' which ingested Meats with Ease descend.

1839 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 7. 200 Funnel [of cuttle-fish] white.

1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxv. 452 The surrounding element being alternately drawn into the branchial cavity..and again expelled in powerful streams through the orifice of the funnel.

a. A tube or shaft for lighting or ventilating purposes; also, the metal chimney of an engine, steamboat, etc. †Formerly also, the soil-pipe of a privy.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > shaft

funnel1555

trunk1610

shaft1820

well hole1829

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > parts of privy > soil-pipe

funnel1555

soil-pipe1833

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer > drain-pipe > for excrement

funnel1555

soil-pipe1833

the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator > passage, shaft, duct, or pipe

funnel1555

ventiduct1615

ventoso1698

air pipe1748

ventilating tube1754

ventilation-pipe1823

airshaft1846

through-draught1852

duct1884

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > funnel

chimney1815

funnel1834

smokestack1859

smoke-head1915

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 333^v A funell or trunke of woodde or such other open instrument wherby the ayer maye be conueyed into the caue.

1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiii. 92 Priuy Funnels or Vaults, may also bee made by the Press~ware Art so close and so sweete that there can no annoyance or vnsauory smels euapoure out..many houses..are much annoyed by the leaking and sincking through the funnels of Brick.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 39 Admitting neither Light nor Air, more than what the Lamps, always burning, are by open Funnels above suffered to ventilate.

1701 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 36 Sir Christopher Wren has made this day 4 funnells on the top of the house of commons, to lett out the heat, in case they sitt in the summer.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 349 The Funnel to carry the Smoak.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. viii. 382 These funnels served to communicate the air to the hold.

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 480/2 There are..eight funnels for letting out the steam through windows.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 156 Mr. Chucks slapped his fist against the funnel.

1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 127 The chimney, or funnel, is made of sheet iron, and rivetted on to the uptake.

1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 315 All this while the steam has been fiercely chafing through the funnel.

b. The flue of a chimney, somewhat resembling an inverted funnel (see quot. 1842).

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney > flue or shaft

tewelc1384

shaftc1450

tunnel1508

shankc1525

chimney-shank1552

flue1582

gullet1672

funnel1688

fire tube1729

vent1756

stalk1821

chimney neck1833

stovepipe1858

1688 J. Clayton Let. 12 May in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1693) 17 787 The Funnel of the Chimney.

1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 51 The outward Hole of the Funnel ought to be small, always less than the Bore of the Funnel.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 762 Chimney Pieces..where the walls of a building are sufficiently thick, their funnels rise within the thickness of the walls.

3. Applied to a funnel-shaped opening, shaft, or channel in rocks, etc.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > chasm or cleft > specific shape

funnel1774

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 102 The sides of the funnel are actually often burst with the great violence of the flame.

1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 246 The ground..presenting to view, those funnels, sinks and wells in groups of rocks..as already recited.

1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. ii. 106 The number of funnels, or sink holes, formed by the washing of the earth into fissures of the limestone rock.

1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 137 A narrow gap or funnel in the mountains through which the river forces its way between perpendicular precipices.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Funnel, the excavation formed by the explosion of a mine.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iv. 105 The crater now became a funnel which was accessible to the bottom.

4. Applied to anything of conical shape with an extension at the apex.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > quality of being hollow cylinder > funnel-shaped object

funnel1876

1876 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 5) i. iv. 104 This [cloud] gradually changed into a filmy funnel, from the narrow end of which the ‘cord’ extended to the cloud in advance.

1897 H. Caine Christian i. x. 46 He lay back, sent funnels of smoke to the ceiling.

5. A cylindrical band of metal; esp. that fitted on to the head of the topgallant and royal masts, to which the rigging is attached.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > fittings on mast for affixing rigging

funnel1694

throat bolt1805

futtock-staff1841

necklace1860

truss-hoop1867

tumbler1867

futtock-hoop1874

bale-band1891

truss-band1909

1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 161 The Wooden Stick is fastened within the Iron Coller or Funnel of the Harpoon, with Packthread wound all about.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 74 The head is round to receive the funnel.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 31 The rigging of a royal mast, topgallant mast and topmast, is placed upon a copper funnel fitting the mast head.

6. A channel, leading from a pond, over which a net is spread forming a ‘pipe’, broad at the mouth but narrowing to a point, into which wild fowl are decoyed.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > pond trap > part of

pipe1565

funnel1774

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 138 This little animal [sc. dog]..keeps playing among the reeds, nearer and nearer the funnel, till they [sc. wild fowl] follow him too far to recede.

Compounds

C1. Simple attributive.

funnel-pipe n.

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1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. i. 13 A piece of funnel-pipe fitted loosely into the hole.

funnel tube n.

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1853 W. Gregory Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 231 Through one aperture in the cork passes the funnel tube.

b. Similative.

funnel-fashioned adj.

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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Funnel-fashioned flowers.

funnel-formed adj.

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1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xviii. 273 The smoke was caught and carried back, under a funnel-formed canopy, into a hollow central pillar.

funnel-like adj.

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1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 757/2 The fibrous funnel-like sheath.

1846 Daily News 21 Jan. 6/5 Narrow, up-hill, funnel-like streets.

funnel-wise adv.

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1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xviii. 189 The landlord..applied himself to warm the same in a small tin vessel shaped funnel-wise.

C2. Special combinations.

funnel-beaker n. Archaeology a type of beaker with a narrow neck; also attributive of a culture characterized by the use of beakers of this type.

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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > types of prehistoric

food vessel1866

stone-using1870

urnfield1889

hunter-gatherer1928

funnel-beaker1954

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > beaker (Bronze Age) > specific

bell-beaker1902

butt beaker1933

funnel-beaker1954

1929 V. G. Childe Danube in Prehist. vii. 117 A relatively closed group is constituted by collared flasks, funnel-necked beakers, and amphorae.]

1954 R. W. Ehrich Rel. Chronol. Old World Archeol. viii. 118 There is a penetration southward from the northern European plain of various groups of people who had..funnel beakers,..and the like.

1955 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 21 120 It does not seem that they have expanded west of the Vistula in the territory occupied by the Funnel-Beaker population.

1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) ix. 159 A herding group who sometimes decorated their funnel-beakers..with cord imprints had cleared tracts of Denmark and Southern Sweden for pasture in Late Atlantic times.

1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) x. 176 The sub~division of Early Neolithic was originally based on the typology of the funnel-beaker—the most distinctive vase in the dominant culture which is usually called after it..the Funnel-Beaker culture.

funnel-casing n. (also funnel-casings) (see quot. 1883).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > funnel > parts of

funnel-casing1877

funnel-hood1883

1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 18 An excellent drying-room has been discovered in a space in the funnel~casings.

1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Funnel-casing, a portion of the funnel of a steamer extending from the smoke-box to some distance upwards.

funnel-form n. = funnel-shaped adj.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form > funnel- or trumpet-shaped

infundibuliform1752

funnel-shaped1753

trumpet-shaped1768

funnelled1793

infundibular1795

trumpet-like1814

evected1841

infundibulate1864

funnel-form1880

trumpeted1889

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §5. 249 Infundibuliform, or Funnel~form, such as the corolla of common Morning-Glory, denotes a tube gradually enlarged upwards from a narrow base into an expanding border or limb.

funnel-hood n. (see quot.).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > funnel > parts of

funnel-casing1877

funnel-hood1883

1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Funnel-hood, a projected portion of or protection to the funnel, raised some feet above the deck.

funnel-net n. the net of a funnel (sense 6).

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > net

plover net1404

tunnelc1440

setter1526

trammel1530

bird net1533

day net1576

road net1581

sparrow-net1621

shaw-net1648

trammel-net1648

spreadnet1661

pocket-hay1704

bramble-net1706

clap-net1708

tunnel-net1721

funnel-net1774

bow-net1875

flight net1889

house trap1903

pouting-net1905

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 138 The decoy-ducks never enter the funnel-net with the rest.

funnel polype n. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > polyp > [noun] > resembling a funnel

funnel polype1753

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Polype The funnel polype nearly resembles a funnel, from which it has its name.

funnel-shaped adj. shaped like a funnel, infundibuliform, esp. in Botany.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > funnel-shaped

funnel-shaped1753

funnelled1793

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form > funnel- or trumpet-shaped

infundibuliform1752

funnel-shaped1753

trumpet-shaped1768

funnelled1793

infundibular1795

trumpet-like1814

evected1841

infundibulate1864

funnel-form1880

trumpeted1889

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Polype Infundibuliform..There are properly two species of the funnel-shaped flowers.

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 147 Over this a kind of funnel-shaped supplier is to be made fast.

1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 77 The surface is honeycombed throughout with circular, funnel-shaped holes.

funnel-stays n. (see quot.).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > stay > specific

head ropec1295

fore-stay1373

mainstay1485

sheep's feet1530

forehand1609

backstay1626

jib-stay1752

bobstay1759

breast backstay1769

sciatic stay1794

fore-topgallant-stay1805

funnel-stays1846

belly-stay-

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. at Funnel This [funnel] is secured by ropes or chains, called the funnel-stays, leading from eye-plates near the top of the funnel to the ship's sides.

funnel-top n. (see quot.).

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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > cup-mushroom and allies

Peziza1751

cup-mushroom1769

fairies' bath1854

funnel-top1854

fairy cups1855

cup-fungus1910

1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Funnel-Top, common name for the genus Peziza.

funnel web n. a funnel-shaped spider's web.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Agalenidae > web spun by

funnel web1895

1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects ii. 30 The greater number of the webs seen at such times [sc. in the early morning] are of the form we term funnel-webs.

1912 J. H. Comstock Spider Bk. iv. 193 The principal part of a funnel-web is sheet-like in structure.

1949 W. J. Gertsch Amer. Spiders x. 216 The funnel web of the agelenids is little changed from the silken cell of their forebears.

funnel-web spider n. (a) U.S. a spider of the family Agelenidæ; (b) Australian a poisonous spider of the family Dipluridæ; also elliptical.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Agalenidae

funnel-web spider1912

funnel-web tarantula1912

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > miscellaneous types > member of family Dipluridae

funnel-web spider1912

funnel-web tarantula1912

1912 J. H. Comstock Spider Bk. vii. 582 The members of this family [sc. Agelenidæ] spin sheet-like webs, which are usually furnished with a tubular retreat; this suggests the common name funnel-web spiders for the family.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Mar. 21 Three people have been killed recently from the bite of a spider, known as the atrax or funnel-web spider.

1954 D. J. Borror & D. M. DeLong Introd. Study Insects xxx. 797 The web of the funnel-web spiders is somewhat sheetlike, but is shaped like a funnel.

1954 D. J. Borror & D. M. DeLong Introd. Study Insects xxx. 805 The Agelenidae, or funnel-web spiders, are a large group.

1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise xxii. 203 The funnel-web lives almost exclusively in the Greater Sydney zone.

1970 Times 30 Dec. 4/5 She was bitten yesterday by a funnel web spider about an inch long.

funnel-web tarantula n. = funnel-web spider n. (b).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Agalenidae

funnel-web spider1912

funnel-web tarantula1912

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > miscellaneous types > member of family Dipluridae

funnel-web spider1912

funnel-web tarantula1912

1912 J. H. Comstock Spider Bk. vi. 247 The funnel-web tarantulas resemble the two preceding families.

1954 D. J. Borror & D. M. DeLong Introd. Study Insects xxx. 798 The Dipluridae are the funnel-web tarantulas.

funnel-web weaver n. = funnel-web spider n. (a).

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1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects ii. 31 The funnel-web weavers..are long-legged, brown spiders.

Derivatives

ˈfunnelled adj. funnel-shaped; also figurative; in Botany infundibuliform.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > funnel-shaped

funnel-shaped1753

funnelled1793

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form > funnel- or trumpet-shaped

infundibuliform1752

funnel-shaped1753

trumpet-shaped1768

funnelled1793

infundibular1795

trumpet-like1814

evected1841

infundibulate1864

funnel-form1880

trumpeted1889

1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 65. 518 The auditory passage was extremely narrow, and not funnelled as in other subjects.

1849 Florist 194 [A pelargonium] too funnelled, and the blotch on upper petals not even.

1883 D. Pidgeon in Nature 23 June The double funneled stem of whirling mist [of a waterspout].

1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. xvi. 242 Quivering to the swell of funneled uproar.

Draft additions June 2006

funnel cake n. North American a type of deep-fried cake of Pennsylvania German origin, made by pouring batter through a funnel into hot fat.

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1891 Arthur's Home Mag. May 416/1 Funnel cakes... Begin in the middle of the pan, allowing the batter to run through the funnel, winding it around and around.

1950 F. Klees Pennsylvania Dutch 424 Today funnel cakes are rarely come upon... A thin batter was run through a funnel on to deep fat.

2003 N.Y. Mag. 30 June 44/3 If it's rowdy crowds, funnel cakes, and silkscreen T-shirts you crave, there are ample choices.

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funnel pan n. U.S. (more fully funnel cake pan) = tube pan n. at tube n. Additions.

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1884 M. J. Lincoln Boston Cook Bk. (1887) 374 Line the bottom and funnel of a cake pan with paper.]

1889 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 22 Mar. 3/5 Angel cake... Line the funnel cake pan with ungreased paper, pour in the mixture and bake fifty minutes.

1895 Boston Daily Globe 11 Sept. 8/7 Bake nearly an hour in a slow oven, using a funnel pan like that for an angel cake.

1988 E. M. Mickler White Trash Cooking II (1996) 107 Bake in funnel pan at 350 degrees until done.

2001 L. Samson Church Ladies 75 She took out a funnel cake pan and a knife. The aroma of cinnamon and butter filled the space between us.

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funnel-neck n. and adj. (a) n.a high, straight, often seamless neckline on a garment, similar to a turtleneck; (b) adj. (of a garment) having such a neck.

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1952 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 26 Sept. 14/7 (advt.) Slipons with funnel neck. White, blue, shrimp, aqua.

1980 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 5 May He softens things up..with lovely funnel neck shirts in crepe de chine.

1998 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Nov. 257/1 The definitive neckline for sweaters is the funnelneck: similar to a turtleneck but wider and higher.

2000 Fairlady (Cape Town) 21 June 89/1 Funnel-neck knitted top.

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funnel-necked adj. (a) (of a vessel) having a neck or opening resembling a funnel; (b) = funnel-neck n. and adj. (b) at Additions.

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1891 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 12 304 Funnel-necked jugs of smooth red clay.

1964 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 15 May 9/2 White or off-white knitted overblouse dress..often round or funnel-necked.

2003 Independent 1 Nov. (Mag.) 59/6 To display just one perfect tulip, Turkish florists always used a round bodied, funnel necked vase called a laledan.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	funnel
释义	funneln.¹ Brit. /ˈfʌnl/, U.S. /ˈfən(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English fonel(le, phonel, 1500s–1600s funell, 1500s–1700s funnell, (1500s fonnell, funnelle), 1600s– funnel. Etymology: Middle English fonel (15th cent.; a supposed earlier example belongs to funel n., rope), apparently < Old French founil (whence Breton founil). Modern Provencal dialects have founil, enfounilh, which are probably corrupted adoptions of Latin infundibulum, < infundĕre* to pour in (the Latin word may have been familiar from its use in pharmacy); the unrecorded Old French form, and the Spanish fonil, Portuguese funil, may be adoptions from Provencal. 1. a. A cone-shaped vessel usually fitted at the apex with a short tube, by means of which a liquid, powder, or the like, may be conducted through a small opening. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > funnel tunner1337 tunder1343 tundish1388 funnel1402 tunnela1529 fundible1579 funible1654 infundible1657 filler1782 1402–3 Durham MS. Alm. Roll. j funell. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 12988 He me gaff..Thys sak also, and thys phonel Wyth wych my wynes I vp tonne. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxxvii. 155 A gret old oon..þat a foul sak, deep and perced, heeld with hire teeth, and hadde with inne it a fonelle [Fr. entonnour]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 170/1 Fonel, or tonowre, fusorium. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xii. 20 The parfume..taken into the mouth through the pipe of a funnell, or tunnell. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 18 With a funnell, I make shift to fill The narrow vessel. 1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory iii. 86 Make a Paper Funnel, which put in the Hole of the Globe [etc.]. 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 202 To ev'ry Mouth by Turns the Funnel guide, Let Streams of Wine, thro' pewter Channels, glide. 1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 221 The whole fire-box is then filled up with fuel by means of a funnel. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 549 The juice being poured into the tun by means of a funnel. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 49 A circular metallic funnel for catching the rain, and a vessel for storing it. figurative.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 228. ⁋2 The Inquisitive are the Funnels of Conversation..They are the Channels through which all the Good and Evil that is spoken in Town are conveyed.1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 June 2/1 If they..become the ‘animated funnels’ of the executives of their associations.1890 Spectator 16 Aug. 202/2 The funnel through which legislation can trickle down to the country is..nearly blocked up. b. spec. in Casting. The hole through which the metal is poured into a mould. Cf. gate n.¹, ingate n.¹ and adv., tedge n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > casting equipment > mould > hole for pouring in metal gate1678 sprue1833 ingate1858 tedge1858 funnel1875 horn gate1909 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 925/1. c. Anatomy and Zoology. A funnel-shaped organ or limb; an infundibulum. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > having specific structure button1600 lath1633 marsupiuma1637 funnel1712 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > tube or canal conduit1340 pipec1385 channela1387 porea1398 canal?a1425 cannel?1553 strait1558 canaliculus1661 tube1661 duct1667 tubule1677 ductus1699 funnel1712 cannule1719 infundibulum1799 meatus1800 tubulet1826 tubulus1826 canalicule1839 canalization1840 ductule1883 1712 R. Blackmore Creation vi. 294 Some [muscles] the long Funnel's curious Mouth extend Thro' which ingested Meats with Ease descend. 1839 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 7. 200 Funnel [of cuttle-fish] white. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxv. 452 The surrounding element being alternately drawn into the branchial cavity..and again expelled in powerful streams through the orifice of the funnel. 2. a. A tube or shaft for lighting or ventilating purposes; also, the metal chimney of an engine, steamboat, etc. †Formerly also, the soil-pipe of a privy. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > shaft funnel1555 trunk1610 shaft1820 well hole1829 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > parts of privy > soil-pipe funnel1555 soil-pipe1833 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer > drain-pipe > for excrement funnel1555 soil-pipe1833 the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator > passage, shaft, duct, or pipe funnel1555 ventiduct1615 ventoso1698 air pipe1748 ventilating tube1754 ventilation-pipe1823 airshaft1846 through-draught1852 duct1884 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > funnel chimney1815 funnel1834 smokestack1859 smoke-head1915 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 333^v A funell or trunke of woodde or such other open instrument wherby the ayer maye be conueyed into the caue. 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiii. 92 Priuy Funnels or Vaults, may also bee made by the Press~ware Art so close and so sweete that there can no annoyance or vnsauory smels euapoure out..many houses..are much annoyed by the leaking and sincking through the funnels of Brick. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 39 Admitting neither Light nor Air, more than what the Lamps, always burning, are by open Funnels above suffered to ventilate. 1701 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 36 Sir Christopher Wren has made this day 4 funnells on the top of the house of commons, to lett out the heat, in case they sitt in the summer. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 349 The Funnel to carry the Smoak. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. viii. 382 These funnels served to communicate the air to the hold. 1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 480/2 There are..eight funnels for letting out the steam through windows. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 156 Mr. Chucks slapped his fist against the funnel. 1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 127 The chimney, or funnel, is made of sheet iron, and rivetted on to the uptake. 1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 315 All this while the steam has been fiercely chafing through the funnel. b. The flue of a chimney, somewhat resembling an inverted funnel (see quot. 1842). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > chimney > flue or shaft tewelc1384 shaftc1450 tunnel1508 shankc1525 chimney-shank1552 flue1582 gullet1672 funnel1688 fire tube1729 vent1756 stalk1821 chimney neck1833 stovepipe1858 1688 J. Clayton Let. 12 May in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1693) 17 787 The Funnel of the Chimney. 1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 51 The outward Hole of the Funnel ought to be small, always less than the Bore of the Funnel. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 762 Chimney Pieces..where the walls of a building are sufficiently thick, their funnels rise within the thickness of the walls. 3. Applied to a funnel-shaped opening, shaft, or channel in rocks, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > chasm or cleft > specific shape funnel1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 102 The sides of the funnel are actually often burst with the great violence of the flame. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 246 The ground..presenting to view, those funnels, sinks and wells in groups of rocks..as already recited. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. ii. 106 The number of funnels, or sink holes, formed by the washing of the earth into fissures of the limestone rock. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 137 A narrow gap or funnel in the mountains through which the river forces its way between perpendicular precipices. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Funnel, the excavation formed by the explosion of a mine. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iv. 105 The crater now became a funnel which was accessible to the bottom. 4. Applied to anything of conical shape with an extension at the apex. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > quality of being hollow cylinder > funnel-shaped object funnel1876 1876 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 5) i. iv. 104 This [cloud] gradually changed into a filmy funnel, from the narrow end of which the ‘cord’ extended to the cloud in advance. 1897 H. Caine Christian i. x. 46 He lay back, sent funnels of smoke to the ceiling. 5. A cylindrical band of metal; esp. that fitted on to the head of the topgallant and royal masts, to which the rigging is attached. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > fittings on mast for affixing rigging funnel1694 throat bolt1805 futtock-staff1841 necklace1860 truss-hoop1867 tumbler1867 futtock-hoop1874 bale-band1891 truss-band1909 1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 161 The Wooden Stick is fastened within the Iron Coller or Funnel of the Harpoon, with Packthread wound all about. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 74 The head is round to receive the funnel. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 31 The rigging of a royal mast, topgallant mast and topmast, is placed upon a copper funnel fitting the mast head. 6. A channel, leading from a pond, over which a net is spread forming a ‘pipe’, broad at the mouth but narrowing to a point, into which wild fowl are decoyed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > pond trap > part of pipe1565 funnel1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 138 This little animal [sc. dog]..keeps playing among the reeds, nearer and nearer the funnel, till they [sc. wild fowl] follow him too far to recede. Compounds C1. Simple attributive. a. funnel-pipe n. ΚΠ 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. i. 13 A piece of funnel-pipe fitted loosely into the hole. funnel tube n. ΚΠ 1853 W. Gregory Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 231 Through one aperture in the cork passes the funnel tube. b. Similative. funnel-fashioned adj. ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Funnel-fashioned flowers. funnel-formed adj. ΚΠ 1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xviii. 273 The smoke was caught and carried back, under a funnel-formed canopy, into a hollow central pillar. funnel-like adj. ΚΠ 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 757/2 The fibrous funnel-like sheath. 1846 Daily News 21 Jan. 6/5 Narrow, up-hill, funnel-like streets. c. funnel-wise adv. ΚΠ 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xviii. 189 The landlord..applied himself to warm the same in a small tin vessel shaped funnel-wise. C2. Special combinations. funnel-beaker n. Archaeology a type of beaker with a narrow neck; also attributive of a culture characterized by the use of beakers of this type. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > types of prehistoric food vessel1866 stone-using1870 urnfield1889 hunter-gatherer1928 funnel-beaker1954 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > beaker (Bronze Age) > specific bell-beaker1902 butt beaker1933 funnel-beaker1954 1929 V. G. Childe Danube in Prehist. vii. 117 A relatively closed group is constituted by collared flasks, funnel-necked beakers, and amphorae.] 1954 R. W. Ehrich Rel. Chronol. Old World Archeol. viii. 118 There is a penetration southward from the northern European plain of various groups of people who had..funnel beakers,..and the like. 1955 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 21 120 It does not seem that they have expanded west of the Vistula in the territory occupied by the Funnel-Beaker population. 1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) ix. 159 A herding group who sometimes decorated their funnel-beakers..with cord imprints had cleared tracts of Denmark and Southern Sweden for pasture in Late Atlantic times. 1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) x. 176 The sub~division of Early Neolithic was originally based on the typology of the funnel-beaker—the most distinctive vase in the dominant culture which is usually called after it..the Funnel-Beaker culture. funnel-casing n. (also funnel-casings) (see quot. 1883). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > funnel > parts of funnel-casing1877 funnel-hood1883 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 18 An excellent drying-room has been discovered in a space in the funnel~casings. 1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Funnel-casing, a portion of the funnel of a steamer extending from the smoke-box to some distance upwards. funnel-form n. = funnel-shaped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form > funnel- or trumpet-shaped infundibuliform1752 funnel-shaped1753 trumpet-shaped1768 funnelled1793 infundibular1795 trumpet-like1814 evected1841 infundibulate1864 funnel-form1880 trumpeted1889 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §5. 249 Infundibuliform, or Funnel~form, such as the corolla of common Morning-Glory, denotes a tube gradually enlarged upwards from a narrow base into an expanding border or limb. funnel-hood n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > funnel > parts of funnel-casing1877 funnel-hood1883 1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Funnel-hood, a projected portion of or protection to the funnel, raised some feet above the deck. funnel-net n. the net of a funnel (sense 6). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > net plover net1404 tunnelc1440 setter1526 trammel1530 bird net1533 day net1576 road net1581 sparrow-net1621 shaw-net1648 trammel-net1648 spreadnet1661 pocket-hay1704 bramble-net1706 clap-net1708 tunnel-net1721 funnel-net1774 bow-net1875 flight net1889 house trap1903 pouting-net1905 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 138 The decoy-ducks never enter the funnel-net with the rest. funnel polype n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > polyp > [noun] > resembling a funnel funnel polype1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Polype The funnel polype nearly resembles a funnel, from which it has its name. funnel-shaped adj. shaped like a funnel, infundibuliform, esp. in Botany. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > funnel-shaped funnel-shaped1753 funnelled1793 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form > funnel- or trumpet-shaped infundibuliform1752 funnel-shaped1753 trumpet-shaped1768 funnelled1793 infundibular1795 trumpet-like1814 evected1841 infundibulate1864 funnel-form1880 trumpeted1889 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Polype Infundibuliform..There are properly two species of the funnel-shaped flowers. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 147 Over this a kind of funnel-shaped supplier is to be made fast. 1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 77 The surface is honeycombed throughout with circular, funnel-shaped holes. funnel-stays n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > stay > specific head ropec1295 fore-stay1373 mainstay1485 sheep's feet1530 forehand1609 backstay1626 jib-stay1752 bobstay1759 breast backstay1769 sciatic stay1794 fore-topgallant-stay1805 funnel-stays1846 belly-stay- 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. at Funnel This [funnel] is secured by ropes or chains, called the funnel-stays, leading from eye-plates near the top of the funnel to the ship's sides. funnel-top n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > cup-mushroom and allies Peziza1751 cup-mushroom1769 fairies' bath1854 funnel-top1854 fairy cups1855 cup-fungus1910 1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Funnel-Top, common name for the genus Peziza. funnel web n. a funnel-shaped spider's web. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Agalenidae > web spun by funnel web1895 1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects ii. 30 The greater number of the webs seen at such times [sc. in the early morning] are of the form we term funnel-webs. 1912 J. H. Comstock Spider Bk. iv. 193 The principal part of a funnel-web is sheet-like in structure. 1949 W. J. Gertsch Amer. Spiders x. 216 The funnel web of the agelenids is little changed from the silken cell of their forebears. funnel-web spider n. (a) U.S. a spider of the family Agelenidæ; (b) Australian a poisonous spider of the family Dipluridæ; also elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Agalenidae funnel-web spider1912 funnel-web tarantula1912 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > miscellaneous types > member of family Dipluridae funnel-web spider1912 funnel-web tarantula1912 1912 J. H. Comstock Spider Bk. vii. 582 The members of this family [sc. Agelenidæ] spin sheet-like webs, which are usually furnished with a tubular retreat; this suggests the common name funnel-web spiders for the family. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Mar. 21 Three people have been killed recently from the bite of a spider, known as the atrax or funnel-web spider. 1954 D. J. Borror & D. M. DeLong Introd. Study Insects xxx. 797 The web of the funnel-web spiders is somewhat sheetlike, but is shaped like a funnel. 1954 D. J. Borror & D. M. DeLong Introd. Study Insects xxx. 805 The Agelenidae, or funnel-web spiders, are a large group. 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise xxii. 203 The funnel-web lives almost exclusively in the Greater Sydney zone. 1970 Times 30 Dec. 4/5 She was bitten yesterday by a funnel web spider about an inch long. funnel-web tarantula n. = funnel-web spider n. (b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Agalenidae funnel-web spider1912 funnel-web tarantula1912 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > miscellaneous types > member of family Dipluridae funnel-web spider1912 funnel-web tarantula1912 1912 J. H. Comstock Spider Bk. vi. 247 The funnel-web tarantulas resemble the two preceding families. 1954 D. J. Borror & D. M. DeLong Introd. Study Insects xxx. 798 The Dipluridae are the funnel-web tarantulas. funnel-web weaver n. = funnel-web spider n. (a). ΚΠ 1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects ii. 31 The funnel-web weavers..are long-legged, brown spiders. Derivatives ˈfunnelled adj. funnel-shaped; also figurative; in Botany infundibuliform. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > funnel-shaped funnel-shaped1753 funnelled1793 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of hollow cylindrical form > funnel- or trumpet-shaped infundibuliform1752 funnel-shaped1753 trumpet-shaped1768 funnelled1793 infundibular1795 trumpet-like1814 evected1841 infundibulate1864 funnel-form1880 trumpeted1889 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 65. 518 The auditory passage was extremely narrow, and not funnelled as in other subjects. 1849 Florist 194 [A pelargonium] too funnelled, and the blotch on upper petals not even. 1883 D. Pidgeon in Nature 23 June The double funneled stem of whirling mist [of a waterspout]. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. xvi. 242 Quivering to the swell of funneled uproar. Draft additions June 2006 funnel cake n. North American a type of deep-fried cake of Pennsylvania German origin, made by pouring batter through a funnel into hot fat. ΚΠ 1891 Arthur's Home Mag. May 416/1 Funnel cakes... Begin in the middle of the pan, allowing the batter to run through the funnel, winding it around and around. 1950 F. Klees Pennsylvania Dutch 424 Today funnel cakes are rarely come upon... A thin batter was run through a funnel on to deep fat. 2003 N.Y. Mag. 30 June 44/3 If it's rowdy crowds, funnel cakes, and silkscreen T-shirts you crave, there are ample choices. Draft additions June 2006 funnel pan n. U.S. (more fully funnel cake pan) = tube pan n. at tube n. Additions. ΚΠ 1884 M. J. Lincoln Boston Cook Bk. (1887) 374 Line the bottom and funnel of a cake pan with paper.] 1889 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 22 Mar. 3/5 Angel cake... Line the funnel cake pan with ungreased paper, pour in the mixture and bake fifty minutes. 1895 Boston Daily Globe 11 Sept. 8/7 Bake nearly an hour in a slow oven, using a funnel pan like that for an angel cake. 1988 E. M. Mickler White Trash Cooking II (1996) 107 Bake in funnel pan at 350 degrees until done. 2001 L. Samson Church Ladies 75 She took out a funnel cake pan and a knife. The aroma of cinnamon and butter filled the space between us. Draft additions December 2005 funnel-neck n. and adj. (a) n.a high, straight, often seamless neckline on a garment, similar to a turtleneck; (b) adj. (of a garment) having such a neck. ΚΠ 1952 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 26 Sept. 14/7 (advt.) Slipons with funnel neck. White, blue, shrimp, aqua. 1980 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 5 May He softens things up..with lovely funnel neck shirts in crepe de chine. 1998 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Nov. 257/1 The definitive neckline for sweaters is the funnelneck: similar to a turtleneck but wider and higher. 2000 Fairlady (Cape Town) 21 June 89/1 Funnel-neck knitted top. Draft additions December 2005 funnel-necked adj. (a) (of a vessel) having a neck or opening resembling a funnel; (b) = funnel-neck n. and adj. (b) at Additions. ΚΠ 1891 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 12 304 Funnel-necked jugs of smooth red clay. 1964 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 15 May 9/2 White or off-white knitted overblouse dress..often round or funnel-necked. 2003 Independent 1 Nov. (Mag.) 59/6 To display just one perfect tulip, Turkish florists always used a round bodied, funnel necked vase called a laledan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). funneln.² /ˈfʌnəl/ Forms: Also fummel. dialect. (See quots.; the form fummel seems of doubtful genuineness.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > hybrid horse and ass > mule > female funnel1835 bell-mare1859 1835 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 323 The Little Mule, or Hinny..the produce of a Stallion and a She-ass..In some counties, it is called a Fummel. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Funnel, a mare mule produced by an ass covered by a horse. Linc. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Funnel, a mule whose sire is an ass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). funnelv. Brit. /ˈfʌnl/, U.S. /ˈfən(ə)l/ Etymology: < funnel n.¹ †1. a. intransitive. Of smoke: to issue out or rise up in a funnel-shaped cloud. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [verb (intransitive)] > emit smoke > of smoke: to rise upreeka1325 funnel1594 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K2^v Before a gun is shot off, a stinking smoake funnels out. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. N4^v A dampe (like the smoake of a Cannon)..would strugglingly funnell vp. b. transitive. To feed with a funnel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > feed with a funnel funnel1739 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 202 To ev'ry Mouth by Turns the Funnel guide, Let Streams of Wine, thro' pewter Channels, glide Adown the Throats..[Note] Whenever this Comedy is represented, the Gentlemen of the upper Gallery are exceedingly delighted with seeing Teague funnel Obadiah. 2. transitive and intransitive. To guide or move through a funnel. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > convey by a channel or medium > through a funnel funnel1901 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through > cause to pass through > cause to pass as if through a funnel funnel1901 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)] > through > as through a funnel funnel1923 1901 R. Kipling Kim xiii, in McClure's Mag. Aug. 389/1 Jammed into a corner between cliffs that funnelled and focused every wandering blast. 1923 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales 182 That wind's funnelling badly in the valley. 1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners x. 214 Crowds like swollen rivers funnelled through station exits. 1958 Sunday Times 12 Oct. 1/3 All the data is funneled into the Air Force Data Reduction Centre at Englewood, near Los Angeles. 1961 Times 20 Feb. 14/3 [soccer] They made less impression..on Vowels and his colleagues, funnelling back. 1964 W. McCord in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 431 The popular policy of funneling resources into primary education must be viewed with some caution. 1971 Sci. Amer. June 65/1 Three magnetic spectrometers, which funnel the electrons into a system of detectors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1402n.²1835v.1594
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