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Definition of Canalising
1. canalise [v] - See also: canalise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canalising
Literary usage of Canalising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. River and Canal Engineering: The Characteristics of Open Flowing Streams by Edward Skelton Bellasis (1913)
"Training and canalising.—The steps so far described, together with any of ...
This extended scope of operations is known as canalising in the case of a ..."
2. Travels in North and Central China by John Grant Birch (1902)
"He had submitted to the Viceroy, through the Foreign Office, a scheme for canalising
the small river which connects the great salt-well district with the ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"... Projects for canalising the Isthmus of Krau, by Léon Dru; Documents relating
to the Portuguese Missions to Cambodia and Cochin-China, by tho Vicomte de ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"... for its costliness and the difficulty of canalising the mouths of the Atrato ;
finally, it adopted, as above stated, the Limon-Panama line, according to ..."
5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1901)
"... and canalising of the polders. Willem, born in 1618, had very different tastes
from either of his brothers. He was educated, as has been said, ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"... could be done by canalising the Desaguadero River, and thus rendering it
navigable up to Lake Titicaca. A line from La Paz to the lake has long been ..."
7. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1883)
"There is an idea of canalising the Landwasser, which at times overflows and
converts the meadows into a marshy swamp. AN ALIBI AND ITS PRICE. ..."
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