Definition of channel

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Channel (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks..

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Chops :: Chops (n. pl.) The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel..
Flute :: Flute (v. t.) To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc..
Conduit :: Conduit (n.) A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid..
Cullis :: Cullis (n.) A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.
Race :: Race (n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney..
Roust :: Roust (n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel..
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..
Channel :: Channel (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks..
Rib :: Rib (v. t.) To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth..
Diglyph :: Diglyph (n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it..
Meros :: Meros (n.) The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph.
Streamlet :: Streamless (a.) Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel..
Channeling :: Channeling (n.) The act or process of forming a channel or channels.
Furrow :: Furrow (n.) To mark with channels or with wrinkles.
Gullet :: Gullet (n.) A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons..
Pilotage :: Pilotage (n.) The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels..
Kill :: Kill (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel..
Divert :: Divert (v. t.) To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course..
Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal..
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