King James Bible Dictionary

1. The bed of the sea or of a river (Psalms 18:15; Isaiah 8:7).

2. The "chanelbone" (Job 31:22 marg.), properly "tube" or "shaft," an old term for the collar-bone.

CHANNEL, noun

1. In a general sense, a passage; a place of passing or flowing; particularly, a water course.

2. The place where a river flows, including the whole breadth of the river. But more appropriately, the deeper part or hollow in which the principal current flows.

3. The deeper part of a strait, bay, or harbor, where the principal current flows, either of tide or fresh water, or which is the most convenient for the track of a ship.

4. That through which any thing passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.

5. A gutter or furrow in a column.

6. An arm of the sea; a straight or narrow sea, between two continents, or between a continent and an isle; as the British or Irish channel

7. Channels of a ship. [See Chain-wales.]

CHANNEL, verb transitive To form a channel; to cut channels in; to groove; as, to channel a field or a column.

CHANNELED, participle passive Having channels; grooved longitudinally.

CHANNELING, participle present tense Cutting channels; grooving longitudinally.