Channel

1) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7).

2) The "chanelbone" (Job 31:22 marg.), properly "tube" or "shaft," an old term for the collar-bone.

Channel
·noun A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column. II. Channel ·vt To course through or over, as in a...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
channel
In hydrography, the fair-way, or deepest part of a river, harbour, or strait, which is most convenie...

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channel-bill
n. name given to a birdresembling a large cuckoo, Scythrops novae-hollandiae,Lath. See Scythrops. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
channel-bolts
The long bolts which pass through all the planks, and connect the channel to the side. ...

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channel-gropers
The home-station ships cruising in the Channel; usually small vessels to watch the coast in former t...

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channel-groping
The carrying despatches, and cruising from port to port in soundings. ...

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channel-plates
See chain-plates. ...

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channel-wales
Strakes worked between the gun-deck and the upper deck ports of large ships. Also, the outside plank...

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mid-channel
Implies half way across any river, channel, &c. ...

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