With an inanimate thing as object. To conduct (water, occasionally steam) through a channel or pipe. Cf. Latin aquam ducere. Also with away, forth…

To conduct (a stream of water or other fluid) from a source, reservoir, main stream, etc. to or into a channel, place, or destination; to lead…

literal. transitive. To bring or draw (water, etc.) from. Obsolete.

To draw or convey (a streamlet) aside (from the main stream). Obsolete. rare.

To convey water, or other moving body by a channel; also predicated of the channel.

transitive. To lead back; to conduct again.

transitive. In extended use. To convey (electricity, etc.) through cables in underground ducts or channels; to provide (a place) with these. Obsolete.

To conduct (liquid, gas, etc.) by means of a bypass.