lateral canal
Americannoun
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a canal running parallel to a stream that is inconvenient or impossible to navigate.
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one of a number of irrigation canals distributing water from a main canal.
Example Sentences
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It is skirted on the west by the Garonne itself, and on the north by its lateral canal.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
A lateral canal unites the northern ends of the two main canals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" 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 Francis Lynde
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
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 Francis Lynde
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