vbl. sb. [f. CANAL sb. and v. + -ING1.] a. The construction of a canal; canal-making; canal-work. b. Travelling or doing business by canal; canal traffic.
1834. Chamb. Jrnl., I. 40. The longest piece of canalling required to open the whole line.
1885. B. E. Martin, in Harper’s Mag., May, 858/2. The journey from Brentford to Paddington is made up of twenty miles of commonest country canalling.
1885. Sioux Valley News, 1 Jan., 2/1. They say the days of canaling are over…. The railroads … have taken all that business.
