Usage examples for canal:

• Next we found the canal barred by a grinning row of black iron teeth, under which we dived as best we might. "HE" – Andrew Lang

• Michael Grant, a long time ago- that is to say, full twenty years- had a tanyard on Rumblebottom Creek, occupying the very ground which is now covered by the canal basin. "Quodlibet" – John P. Kennedy

• They made as short a stay, consequently, as possible, in New York; and by railways, canal boat, and steamer, in about a week arrived at the beautiful city of Cincinnati. "The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; The Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace" – Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick