Channel

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

II. Channel ·vt To course through or over, as in a channel.

III. Channel ·noun The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

IV. Channel ·noun A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.

V. Channel ·vt To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to Groove.

VI. Channel ·noun That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.

VII. Channel ·noun The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, ·etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.

VIII. Channel ·noun 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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