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The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.

A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. Anchor buoy, a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor. -- Bell buoy, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of…

A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.

A style of interweaving giving to fabrics a channeled or fluted effect; also, a fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep.

olted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.

The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.

A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.

That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument. [Obs.] Although thou been conduct of my chame. Shak.

A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid. All the conduits of my blood froze up. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.

he water. [Poetic] You numphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels. Shak.

A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.

A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad. This great cut or ditch Secostris . . . purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper. Knolles.