channel

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In hydrography, the fair-way, or deepest part of a river, harbour, or strait, which is most convenient for the track of shipping.


Also, an arm of the sea, or water communication running between an island or islands and the main or continent, as the British Channel. In an extended sense it implies any passage which separates lands, and leads from one ocean into another, without distinction as to shape.

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