gunnies
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Cornish gonis (“gunnies”).
Noun[edit]
gunnies (plural gunnies or gunnieses)
- (Cornwall, mining) A vacant space left in the ground after a lode has been mined.
- 1911, Mining Journal, page 811:
- At the mines of Bruay the gunnies are filled by rubbish from the surface, carried down through pipes by a current of water.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gunnies.
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
gunnies