canalling

/K AE0 N AH0 L IH0 NG/
noun
  1. 1

    An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

  2. 2

    (anatomy, botany) A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.

  3. 3

    (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals

  4. 4

    A surname.

verb
  1. 1

    To travel along a canal by boat

  2. 2

    To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage