1. Channelled work; fluting, grooving.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong., Caneleure, chamfring, chaneling.
1728. R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., 51. The Channellings of the Triglyphs.
1885. ‘C. E. Craddock,’ Prophet Gt. Smoky Mount., vii. A deep gorge … washed by the wintry torrents into divers channelings.
2. Making of channels; providing with a ‘channel’ or gutter.
1885. Law Times Rep., LII. 619/1. The paving and channelling of the street.
attrib. 1883. H. Tuttle, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 824/1. [Marble quarrying] … The channelling process, now familiar to mining engineers, was introduced in 1841.
3. A rude form of curling, (Cf. channel-stone.)
1831. Blackw. Mag., XXX. 970. The only approach to the game [Curling] made there [in the north of England] … being what is called ‘channelling,’ a rude and artless amusement, with chance stones from the brook.
