enchannel

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English

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Etymology

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From en- +‎ channel.

Verb

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enchannel (third-person singular simple present enchannels, present participle enchanneling or enchannelling, simple past and past participle enchanneled or enchannelled)

  1. To make run in a channel.
    • 1848, D. Brewster, "Mrs. Somerville's Physical Geography" (review), in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
      Its waters were enchanneled.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for enchannel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)