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plural canals
An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation. examples
(anatomy) A tubular channel within the body. examples
(astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals examples
third-person singular simple present canals, present participle canaling or canalling, simple past and past participle canaled or canalled
To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage quotations examples
In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded.
1968, Louisiana State University, Proceedings, page 165
To travel along a canal by boat quotations examples
Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.
1905, William Yoast Morgan, A Journey of a Jayhawker, page 211