channel-groping

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• Groping

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Grope>>. ...

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• groping

  An old mode of catching trout by tickling them with the hands under rocks or banks. Shakspeare makes...

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• Channel

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

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• Channel

  1) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7). 2) The "chanelbone" (Job 31:22 marg.), p...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• channel

  In hydrography, the fair-way, or deepest part of a river, harbour, or strait, which is most convenie...

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• Groping-ly

  ·adv In a groping manner. ...

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• Groping Lane

  On Tower Hill (Wheatley). Mentioned 1642. Not named in the maps. ...

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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-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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