canalling

Variant of canal

canal definition

ca·nal (kə nal′)

noun

  1. an artificial waterway for transportation or irrigation
  2. a river artificially improved by locks, levees, etc. to permit navigation
  3. any of the long, narrow lines, visible from earth, on the planet Mars: once thought by some to be canals but now known to be optical illusions
  4. Anat. any of various tubular passages or ducts

Etymology: ME, pipe or tube < OFr < L canalis, pipe, groove, channel < canna, reed: see cane

transitive verb canalled -·nalled′ or canaled -·naled′, canalling -·nal′·ling or canaling -·nal′·ing

to build a canal through or across

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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