Usually means: Rotating cloud, precursor to tornado.
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  1. funnel cloud: Merriam-Webster
  2. funnel cloud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. funnel cloud: Collins English Dictionary
  4. funnel cloud: Wiktionary
  5. funnel cloud: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. funnel cloud: Dictionary.com
  7. Funnel Cloud (album), Funnel cloud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. funnel cloud: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. funnel cloud: Encyclopedia

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (funnel cloud)

noun:  (meteorology) A tapering, rapidly rotating cloud descending from a larger storm cloud, indicating the presence of an intense vortex. A tornado is a funnel cloud which reaches the ground.

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