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

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

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

Castelsarrasin, situated on the left bank of the lateral canal of the Garonne and about a mile from the right bank of that river, is surrounded by promenades occupying the site of the old fortifications.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

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