"tunnelist" meaning in English

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          "text": "The tunnelist showed me the cellar he'd dug beneath his house.",
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          "ref": "2016 April 12, “How did he do it? Building a backyard tunnel is no easy task”, in Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alb.: Postmedia Network Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-17:",
          "text": "Details about the backyard tunnel in Queensland revealed by Calgary police today are scarce — we know it was an alleged storehouse for stolen goods, and little else. But building a 30-foot tunnel is a huge amount of work, even more so if you're trying to keep it secret, as the famous Toronto tunnelist proved.",
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          "ref": "2024 January 18, Amanda Holpuch, “The TikTok ’Tunnel Girl’ Is Not Alone”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-23:",
          "text": "Spending hours heaving dirt and rocks from the ground might seem like an unusual pastime, but it has a history: Hobby tunnelists of yore include the Fifth Duke of Portland, who in the 19th century built an underground ballroom on his property, and, more recently, the so-called mole man of London, who spent 40 years making tunnels before he was discovered.",
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        "Someone who digs tunnels, especially as a hobby."
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        {
          "word": "tunneler"
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        {
          "word": "tunnellist"
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          "text": "Details about the backyard tunnel in Queensland revealed by Calgary police today are scarce — we know it was an alleged storehouse for stolen goods, and little else. But building a 30-foot tunnel is a huge amount of work, even more so if you're trying to keep it secret, as the famous Toronto tunnelist proved.",
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          "text": "Spending hours heaving dirt and rocks from the ground might seem like an unusual pastime, but it has a history: Hobby tunnelists of yore include the Fifth Duke of Portland, who in the 19th century built an underground ballroom on his property, and, more recently, the so-called mole man of London, who spent 40 years making tunnels before he was discovered.",
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