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

Between Toulouse and Castets, 33� m. above Bordeaux, and the highest point to which ordinary spring-tides ascend, the river is accompanied at a distance of from a � to 3 m. by the so-called “lateral canal” of the Garonne, constructed in 1838-1856.

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A small canal unites the works to the Lateral canal of the Loire.

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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.

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The Meuse is canalized within the department, and the Canal des Ardennes, uniting that river with the Aisne, and the lateral canal of the Aisne are together about 65 m. long.

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A lateral canal unites the northern ends of the two main canals.

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