plural of canal basin

A broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.

(meteorology) Synonym of fallstreak hole

(historical, from 1936 until 1956) The territory stretching around the course of the Suez Canal.

(history) The territory within Panama, stretching along the course of the Panama Canal but excluding the sea port cities Panama City and Colón under the 18 November 1903 lease treaty until the return of state control on 30 September 1979.

(neuroanatomy) A nerve formed by the union of the greater petrosal and the deep petrosal nerves that passes forward through the pterygoid canal in the sphenoid bone and joins the pterygopalatine ganglion.

(anatomy) A short auditory canal in the petrous portion of the temporal bone through which pass the facial and vestibulocochlear nerves and the internal auditory artery.

An artificial waterway connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south.

The bank of a canal.

Situated near or alongside a canal.