American Sign Language: "tunnel"

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The right sign for "tunnel" depends on whether you mean the noun or the verb.  It also depends on what the tunnel looks like.

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TUNNEL (verb)
If you mean the verb:
* You can use a cupped hand doing a scooping movement to show a backhoe or similar bucket-type device.
* You can use two cupped hands doing scooping/digging movements to show an animal "tunneling"
* Use an index finger doing a forward corkscrew movement to show a drill-type device tunneling,
* Use an index finger bending and unbending (1,X,1,X) as it moves forward to show the tunneling of a worm (or similar creatures).
 

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TUNNEL (noun)


See: CAVE
See: PIPELINE
See: POLE
 

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