CHANNEL
noun
Definitions
- 1. The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
- 2. The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
- 3. A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
- 4. That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging channels. Dalton. At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.
- 5. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- 6. pl. Etym: [Cf. Chain wales.] (Naut.)
- 7. 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. Channel bar, Channel iron (Arch.), an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel. -- Channel bill (Zoöl.), a very large Australian cucko (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ. -- Channel goose. (Zoöl.) See Gannet.
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Added: October 09, 2025
Updated: October 09, 2025