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What is a funnel cloud?

What is a funnel cloud? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (meteorology) A tapering 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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Then you see it for the first time, a nice formed funnel cloud coming down ready to rip, twist, and destroy anything.
Just like a funnel cloud, the clouds were moving quickly in a circular pattern around the entire city while the thunder continued to roar loudly.
Forecaster Chris Rees, from PA Weather, said it sounded as though a funnel cloud or a mini tornado had hit the town.
I was twelve and I rode on the back of a big boy's bicycle flat into a funnel cloud that picked us up and threw us clean into the ditch.
So when she encountered her first funnel cloud in the midst of a bike ride in 1998, the professional athlete wasn't content ducking into a ditch.
A light gray funnel cloud was extending down, at a rate of about twenty feet a second.

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