gunnies

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Cornish gonis (“gunnies”).

Noun

gunnies (plural gunnies or gunnieses)

1. (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

Etymology 2

Noun

gunnies

1. plural of gunny

Anagrams

• ensuing, ingenus, inguens