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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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..
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..
Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A narrow channel of water.
Streamlet :: Streamless (a.) Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel..
Excavation :: Excavation (n.) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
Aqueduct :: Aqueduct (n.) A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water..
Fluting :: Fluting (n.) Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle..
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..
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole..
Fuller :: Fuller (v. t.) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet..
Diglyph :: Diglyph (n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it..
River :: River (n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook..
Alveus :: Alveus (n.) The channel of a river.
Constipate :: Constipate (v. t.) To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels..
Gutter :: Gutter (n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
Cullis :: Cullis (n.) A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.
Race :: Race (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race..
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..
Siphonostomatous :: Siphonostomatous (a.) Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.
Feather :: Feather (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline..
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