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- verb Present participle of
canal .
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Examples
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The system of canalling is a system of slack-water navigation, but abhors stagnant water.
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The same ill-fated rage for canalling-murder prevails here.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards
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A near drowning while he labored on the Erie and Ohio Canal convinced him that God "had saved me for my mother and for something greater and better than canalling," he wrote.
NYT > Home Page By KEVIN BAKER 2011
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It consists of canalling, improving river navigation, rail-roads, and common turnpike roads.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck 1823
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Those of the latter are more generally found about our large towns and cities, and along the lines of canalling.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck 1823
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The canalling is managed by a Board of Commissioners.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck 1823
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I have not time now, nor would it amuse the reader, to give a detail of the project for canalling the Trent, part of which was well executed before the troubles of 1837; but the money was voted, and is not so enormous as to justify the non-performance of so important a public work.
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
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Ghent we spot another brasserie with tables along the canal, Mistraal Brasserie, and pull up a shady table to watch the canalling boaters and tour boats pass by with a Kamiliet Trippel blonde for Marshall and a Keizer Karel Rouge beer flavored with orange peel for me.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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It is highly probable that other specimens have been raised by those engaged in canalling, &c. that have been laid aside as Mastodon bones, which tihiey so closely resemble.
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"for canalling purposes"; and the directors annually went through with the form of electing an agent and collector as late as 1853.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 Various
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