Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FUN'NEL, n. [W. fynel, an air-hole, funnel or chimney, from fwn, breath, source, connected with fount, – which see.]

1. A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance, particularly the shaft or hollow channel of a chimney through which smoke ascends.
2. A vessel for conveying fluids into close vessels; a kind of hollow cone with a pipe; a tunnel. Ray.