Word Meanings - CANAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.
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A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock. (more info) from a root signifying "to cut"; cf. D. kanaal, fr. the French. Cf. 1. An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
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- FREIGHT
1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use - PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - WALK-MILL
A fulling mill. Halliwell. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - BESIDE
1. At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." Milton. 2. Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of. have done enough To put him quite beside his patience. Shak. 3. Over and - CANAL
A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock. - FREIGHTAGE
1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage. 2. The transportation of freight. 3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton. - PECULIARNESS
The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede. - FREIGHTLESS
Destitute of freight. - CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms. - WALK
akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. valka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps; - HORSESHOE
The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in - DRAWN
See PATTERN - PECULIARLY
In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually. - CARRYK
A carack. Chaucer. - CANALIZATION
Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. - PECULIAR
1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. - SHAPER
1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool, - SHAPELY
1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to - ALIMENTARY
Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - SHOPWALKER
One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - AFFREIGHTER
One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. - SIDEWALK
A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. - DECANAL
Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side - SLEEPWALKER
One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl. - INDRAWN
Drawn in. - SWORD-SHAPED
Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like. - FIDDLE-SHAPED
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray. - TRACKWALKER
A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.