Meaning & use
canal
A man-made waterway built for boats to travel through or to carry water for irrigation.
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Narrow boats glide slowly along the canal that runs through the old town.
Engineers dug a canal to bring water from the river to the fields.
A note on using this word
In anatomy, canal also names a tube-like passage in the body, as in the ear canal.
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