sb. Mining. Also 7–8 bunning. ‘A staging of boards on stulls or stemples, to carry deads.’ Raymond, Mining Gloss. Hence Bunding v., to furnish with a bunding.
1653. Manlove, Lead-Mines (E. D. S.), 257. Bunnings, Polings, Stemples.
1747. Hooson, Miner’s Dict., D iv b. Shafts are likewise Bunding’d over when the Miner has done with them. Ibid., T iv. The use of these are to Climbe by, or for making Bundings.
1795. Milnes, in Phil. Trans., LXXXVI. 359. Expecting that the whole mass of bunnings above them, which contains many hundred tons weight of rubbish, had given way.
