Waterway

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  • noun. A navigable body of water, such as a river, channel, or canal.
  • noun. A channel at the edge of a ship's deck to drain away water.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A channel or passage of water; a water-route; specifically, that part of a river, arm of the sea, or the like through which vessels enter or depart; the fairway.
  • noun. In ship-building, a name given to the thick planks at the outside of the deck, worked over the ends of the beams, and fitting against the inside of the top-timbers, to which, as well as to the ends of the beams, they are bolted, thus forming an important binding.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Same as water course.
  • noun. Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A body of water, such as a river, channel or canal, that can be navigated by boats or ships.
  • noun. A conduit or watercourse, such as on the deck of a ship, to drain water.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a navigable body of water
  • noun. a conduit through which water flows
    • Word Usage
    "Situated at the big bay end of the waterway is the beach house where the television program, McHale's Navy, was filmed."
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Shoreline  airfield  alleyway  aqueduct  canal  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    WA  adolescent stream  approaches  aqueduct  arroyo  
    variant
    watercourse  
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