| • | The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run. |
| • | The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels. |
| • | A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel. |
| • | That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. |
| • | A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column. |
| • | Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks. |
| • | To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove. |
| • | To course through or over, as in a channel. |
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