canal

/kəˈnɛl/

#7,099 of the most-used English words

noun

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. A tubular channel within the body.
3. One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

verb

1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
2. To travel along a canal by boat