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† disˈchannel, v. Obs.
[f. dis- 7 c +channel n.]
trans. To turn (a stream) out of its channel; refl. and intr. to quit its channel; to discharge itself (into the sea, etc.).
1607A. Brewer Lingua iii. v. in Hazl. Dodsley IX. 394 The river Alpheus at that time pursuing his beloved Arethusa dischannelled himself of his former course. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1673) 4/1 Cataractes, dischannelling into the Mediterranean. Ibid. iii. (1682) 165 Mixt with those streams they are dischannelled in the Caspian Sea. |