† channeletn.
Obsolete. rare.
A small channel.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > narrow
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1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. v. 82 Some onely counted the grand and solemn ostiaries of Nilus..whiles others cast all his chanelets (rather cuts than courses) into the number.
1661 T. Salusbury tr. B. Castelli Of Mensuration Running Waters 53 That is the proportion that the quantity of the water which runneth through the Chanellet [It. canaletto] shall have, to all the water that runneth thorow the great Chanel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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