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ˈchannelling, -eling, vbl. n.
[f. channel n.1 and v. + -ing1.]
1. a. Channelled work; fluting, grooving.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Caneleure, chamfring, chaneling. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 51 The Channellings of the Triglyphs. 1885C. E. Cradock Prophet Gt. Smoky Mount. vii, A deep gorge..washed by the wintry torrents into divers channelings.
b. A gutter to carry off rain water from a road or carriageway; = channel n. 3 a.
1892Times 23 Mar. 3/2 There had always been a stone kerb and channelling across the so-called carriage way.
2. Making of channels; providing with a ‘channel’ or gutter.
1885Law Times Rep. LII. 619/1 The paving and channelling of the street.
attrib.1883Harper's Mag. Nov. 824/1 [Marble quarrying]..The channelling process, now familiar to mining engineers, was introduced in 1841.
3. A rude form of curling. (Cf. channel-stone.)
1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 970 The only approach to the game [Curling] made there [in the north of England]..being what is called ‘channelling’, a rude and artless amusement, with chance stones from the brook. |