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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Rabbet :: Rabbet (n.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate..
Hemiglyph :: Hemiglyph (n.) The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply..
Backwater :: Backwater (n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar..
Clog :: Clog (v. t.) To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel..
Channel :: Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel..
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river..
Chase :: Chase (n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile..
Lagoon :: Lagoon (n.) A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice..
Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel..
Channeling :: Channeling (n.) A channel or a system of channels; a groove.
Gully :: Gully (n.) A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Artery :: Artery (n.) Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce..
Channel :: Channel (n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column..
Chop :: Chop (n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops..
Gulleting :: Gulleting (n.) A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.
Kennel :: Kennel (n.) The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle..
Network :: Network (n.) Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads..
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