CHANNEL

Channel. Channel
(1.) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7).

(2.) The “chanelbone” (Job 31:22 marg.), properly “tube” or “shaft,” an old term for the collar-bone.

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channel. Channel, n. the course for a stream of water, a groove, gutter, strait, means

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Chan″nel (chăn″nĕl), n. [[OE. chanel, canel, OF. chanel, F. chenel, fr. L. canalis. See Canal.]] 1. 1. The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
2. 2. The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
3. 3. (Geog.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
4. 4. That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.
The veins are converging channels. Dalton. At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke. 5. 5. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
6. 6. pl. [[Cf. Chain wales.]] (Naut.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
Channel bar, Channel iron (Arch.), an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel. — Channel bill (Zoöl.), a very large Australian cuckoo (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ. — Channel goose. (Zoöl.) See Gannet.