Noun

(en noun)

A corridor; a hallway.

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A meeting room.

A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

(Cowell)

A building providing student accommodation at a university.

The principal room of a secular medieval building.

(label) Cleared passageway through a crowd.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

A hall ! a hall!

Noun

(en noun)

An underground or underwater passage.

A passage through or under some obstacle.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.

A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.

(computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.

A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.

The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.

* Spenser

And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence / The smoke forth threw.

(mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift'', or ''gangway , which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.