gunnies

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Cornish gonis (“gunnies”).

Noun

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

gunnis, gunniss

Noun

gunnies

plural of gunny

Anagrams

ensuing, ingenus, inguens

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