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channelled, -eled, ppl. a.|ˈtʃænəld|
[f. channel n.1 and v. + -ed.]
1. Having channels or grooves; furrowed, grooved, fluted; having a (street) channel or gutter; in Bot. = canaliculate.
1567Drant Horace Epist. xv. E vj, The siluer channeld sande. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece i. viii. (1715) 31 Ionick Pillars Channelled. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 137 Two fine channel'd Pillars. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. II. s.v. Plantain, The Stems..about a Foot high, are angulous and channelled. 1794Wolcott (P. Pindar) Path. Odes Wks. III. 382 Griev'd at thy channell'd cheek, and hoary hair. 1877–84F. E. Hulme Wild Fl. Introd. 8 Leaves long, linear, channelled.
2. Directed or conveyed along a channel; formed with a channel. lit. and fig.
1796Monthly Mag. II. 489 Now flows along Music..For so the master will'd To lead its channel'd course. 1804Ann. Rev. II. 259 Something more..than had already reached us through the channeled courses of intelligence. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. 56 The deep look which shall drain Suffused thought into channelled enterprise.
¶ Situated in, or surrounded by, a channel.
1795Coleridge Ode to Sara vii, Dark reddening from the channelled Isle [note, The Holmes, on the Bristol Channel] The watchfire..Twinkles.
¶ half channelled over = half seas over, half drunk.
1709Hearne Coll. 10 Nov. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 304 One wd think he was halfe Channelled over. |