Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of canal.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word canalled.

Examples

  • Paddies of sea water have been canalled in and sealed off, to evaporate.

    BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Originally published in the August 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, the story opens with the education of a mutant boy born into a powerful royal family that dominates Earth and has allies on Venus, but quickly shifts backward a few years to recount an allied invasion of a green, canalled Mars.

    “Child of the Gods,” a 1946 short story written by A. E. van Vogt Paul 2009

  • Originally published in the August 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, the story opens with the education of a mutant boy born into a powerful royal family that dominates Earth and has allies on Venus, but quickly shifts backward a few years to recount an allied invasion of a green, canalled Mars.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Paul 2009

  • There were illustrations of astronauts watching a “canalled” Mars from one of its moons, Deimos.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • There were illustrations of astronauts watching a “canalled” Mars from one of its moons, Deimos.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • There were illustrations of astronauts watching a “canalled” Mars from one of its moons, Deimos.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • There were illustrations of astronauts watching a “canalled” Mars from one of its moons, Deimos.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • The course of the Rhone has been controlled, the Durance canalled, dikes have been built to restrain the fierce torrents, which, at the melting of the snows, pour in liquid avalanches from the summits of Mt. Ventoux.

    The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • Hindu temples, for the many Guyanese descended from laborers from the Indian subcontinent, dot Georgetown's canalled streets.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.