An open watercourse to conduct water, esp. for agricultural or industrial purposes. Also: (in south-western England) a piece of land irrigated by…

A channel for water; an aqueduct.

An artificial channel for the conveyance of water, esp. for agricultural or industrial purposes. Also occasionally: a natural watercourse; a…

An artificial watercourse such as a drainage channel or mill-race. Also occasionally: the course of a river or stream. Now archaic.

A drain; a channel or run of water.

A channel, pipe, or trunk for conveying water; a conduit; a gutter fixed under the eaves of a building; Scottish (plural) the channel conducting the…

Conduction, conveyance. Also concrete a conduit.

A narrow or comparatively narrow passage or way, or something resembling this; esp. a channel of water in an ice-field (also called a vein); the…

A channel for the escape or passage of water.

(apparently) a watercourse.

A stream of water; a river, a brook; a canal. Also: an artificial channel for conveying water. Also occasionally figurative.

An artificial channel, watercourse, mill-stream. Now only dialect.

concrete. Something that leads. An artificial watercourse, esp. one leading to a mill. Also mill-leat, n. Cf. leat, n.

A passage or channel. An artificial watercourse cut or dug out; a channel, canal, cutting. (In common use in the Fen district in England.)

An artificial channel for the conveyance of water from place to place; a conduit; esp. an elevated structure of masonry used for this purpose.

A small stream of running water; also, a channel for water. Obsolete exc. dialect.

Scottish. A channel, gutter.

A channel or bed (of a stream); spec. an artificial channel leading water to or from a point where its energy is utilized, as in a mill or a mining…

gen. Any artificial watercourse, esp. one constructed for irrigation. Cf. canal, n. 4.

Probably an editorial misreading of watergangia (watergang, n. 1).

A channel for water; a sluice; a covered drain or culvert.

A pipe, channel, or conduit by which water is supplied. Cf. serve, v.1 38a. Obsolete. rare.

Agriculture. An artificial channel for conveying water, esp. a drainage channel. In later use English regional (chiefly southern) (now historical)…

A small channel in which water may flow; a gutter; (more generally) a groove, a furrow.

= aqueduct, n.

An artificial channel for conveying water by gravity to a low level; or for the escape of overflow water from a reservoir, etc.; also for forcing…

A conduit. Obsolete. rare.

A channel or pipe along or down which something may flow. Now rare.

Originally and chiefly U.S. A channel, trough, or tube for conveying water from a lake, dam, etc., esp. to a waterwheel or turbine.

(See quot. 1764.)

A channel in which water runs away from a watermill. Cf. earlier way-go n. at way, adv. compounds 2. Now rare.

A channel, conduit, or tunneled drain of masonry or brick-work conveying a stream of water across beneath a canal, railway embankment, or road; also…

U.S., etc. An artificial channel for a stream of water to be applied to some industrial use.

A channel or open trough for conveying water, esp. to a lower level; a gutter fixed beneath the eaves of a building. (Cf. shoot, n.1 5b.)

A trough, channel, or conduit, usually made of wooden boards, for conveying water from a weir, dam, etc., to the top of the wheel in a watermill. Cf…

A passage or channel in which water runs, esp. to or from a watermill; a canal. Also in extended use. Cf. race, n.1 5b.

English regional (southern). A channel for carrying off water. Now rare.

A drain, ditch, or channel, esp. for water or sewage. Cf. carriage, n. 7. Now rare.

Anything that conducts, leads, or guides; a channel by which water, etc. is conducted.

A channel for conveying water, esp. an open channel in an irrigated meadow. In later use also: a pipeline or system of pipelines, etc., for…

= pentrough, n.

A sloping channel or passage for the conveyance of water, or of things floating in water, to a lower level; in North America, an opening in a…