Canal: Definition and part of speech

Canal

  1. n. A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
  2. n. An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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