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A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada]

A descending surface; a sloping place. Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.

o make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel. It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber. Addison.

To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon. [Obs.] For fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains. Holland. Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spe…

her; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable to old constitutional requisitions. De Quincey.

A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray.

ning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

n off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that diverted Eve. Milton.

A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. Cook (First Voyage).…

That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.

A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land. Simmonds.

receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eaves lath. -- Eaves channel, Eaves gutter, Eaves trough. Same as Gutter,

That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.

; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

The material dug out in making a channel or cavity. The delivery of the excavations at a distance of 250 feet. E. L. Corthell.

art of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. Totten. the rough.

A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

ack and fill. See under Back, v. i. -- To fill up, to grow or become quite full; as, the channel of the river fills up with sand.