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

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 Francis Lynde

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 John Tyndall

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" 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 Archer Butler Hulbert

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 Francis Lynde

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