channel
/ˈt͡ʃeə̯nəl/ noun C2- The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the 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.
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It was simply a ruse to divert inquiry into a wrong channel.
I had raised my hat and was about to make some explanatory remark when her own words turned all my thoughts into a new channel.
“It seems to me,” said Franz, speaking in an undertone to Albert, “that if this person merited the high panegyrics of our landlord, he would have conveyed his invitation through another channel, and not permitted it to be brought to us in this unceremonious way.
By deliberately narrowing the river channel, the embankments cleverly increased the velocity of the water, thereby helping to scour the riverbed clean of remaining sediment.
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