funnel

noun

• 1a tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening.

• 2a metal chimney on a ship or steam engine.

verb (funnels, funnelling, funnelled; US funnels, funneling, funneled)

• guide or channel (something) through or as if through a funnel:some $12.8 billion was funnelled through the Marshall Plan
• [no object, with adverbial of direction] move or be guided through or as if through a funnel:the wind funnelled down through the valley
• [no object] assume the shape of a funnel by widening or narrowing at the end:the crevice funnelled out