Definition of channel

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Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel..

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Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon..
Race :: Race (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race..
Breasting :: Breasting (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel..
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.
Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding..
Gote :: Gote (n.) A channel for water.
Channel :: Channel (v. t.) To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
Tailrace :: Tailrace (n.) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away..
Glide :: Glide (v. i.) To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed..
Diglyph :: Diglyph (n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it..
Groove :: Groove (v. t.) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
Excavate :: Excavate (v. t.) To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel..
Bore :: Bore (n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel..
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator.
Groove :: Groove (n.) A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut..
Conduct :: Conduct (n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
Arterial :: Arterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad..
Forecastle :: Forecastle (n.) That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels..
Geat :: Geat (n.) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.
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