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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Example Sentences

The river is crossed by a stone bridge, by a suspension bridge for foot-passengers, and by a fine canal bridge, carrying the lateral canal.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

It was afterward necessary to repair the old lateral canal which had been dug out of the rock in the times of the Royal Extraction, but which had been torn open for a considerable length.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

Engineers reported that a lateral canal connecting the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay was not feasible.

From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Hulbert, Archer Butler

The White Water Canal, including a lateral canal or rail-road, to connect said canal with the Central or White river canal.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

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