lateral canal

American  

noun

1. a canal running parallel to a stream that is inconvenient or impossible to navigate.

2. one of a number of irrigation canals distributing water from a main canal.

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lateral canal

Hoskins, the engine-driver, leaning from his window, pointed out the projected course of the southern lateral canal in the great irrigation system.

From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis

We could see the water escape from it through a lateral canal at its bottom, and doubtless the water of the Grand Moulin found a similar exit.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

Briare, the Brivodorum of the Romans, is situated at the extremity of the Canal of Briare, which unites the Loire and its lateral canal with the Loing and so with the Seine.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

Roughly paralleling the stage trail ran the line of the proposed southern lateral canal, marked by its double row of location stakes.

From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis

They were riding together down the line of the northern lateral canal, with Bourke Fitzpatrick's new headquarters in the field for the prospective night's bivouac.

From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis