CHANNEL, n.
1. In a general sense, a passage a place of passing or flowing particularly, a water course.
2. The place where a river flows, including the whole breadth of the river. But more appropriately, the deeper part or hollow in which the principal current flows.
3. The deeper part of a strait, bay, or harbor, where the principal current flows, either of tide or fresh water, or which is the most convenient for the track of a ship.
4. That through which any thing passes means of passing, conveying, or transmitting as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.
5. A gutter or furrow in a column.
6. An arm of the sea a straight or narrow sea, between two continents, or between a continent and an isle as the British or Irish channel.
7. Channels of a ship. See Chain-wales.
CHANNEL, To form a channel to cut channels in to groove as, to channel a field or a column.