Definition of channel

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Channel (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Lacing :: Lacing (n.) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut..
Gutter :: Gutter (n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing..
Channel :: Channel (n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels..
Geat :: Geat (n.) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.
Sewer :: Sewer (n.) A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities..
Killesse :: Killesse (n.) A gutter, groove, or channel..
Drove :: Drove (n.) A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
Race :: Race (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race..
Navigate :: Navigate (v. i.) To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.
Trough :: Trough (n.) Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc..
Waterway :: Waterway (n.) Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed..
Stria :: Stria (n.) A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain..
Diversion :: Diversion (n.) The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business..
Gullet :: Gullet (n.) A channel for water.
Whirlpool :: Whirlpool (n.) An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve..
Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon..
Boom :: Boom (n.) A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor..
Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel..
Swash :: Swash (n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes..
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