ppl. a. [f. CHANNEL sb.1 and v. + -ED.]
1. Having channels or grooves; furrowed, grooved, fluted; having a (street) channel or gutter; in Bot. = CANALICULATE.
1567. Drant, Horace Epist., XV. E vj. The siluer channeld sande.
1697. Potter, Antiq. Greece, I. viii. (1715), 31. Ionick Pillars Channelled.
1703. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1732), 137. Two fine channel’d Pillars.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., II. s.v. Plantain, The Stems … about a Foot high, are angulous and channelled.
1794. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Path. Odes, Wks. III. 382. Griev’d at thy channell’d cheek, and hoary hair.
1877–84. F. E. Hulme, Wild Fl., Introd. 8. Leaves long, linear, channelled.
2. Directed or conveyed along a channel; formed with a channel. lit. and fig.
1796. Monthly Mag., II. 489. Now flows along Music,… For so the master will’d To lead its channel’d course.
1804. Ann. Rev., II. 259. Something more … than had already reached us through the channeled courses of intelligence.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., 56. The deep look which shall drain Suffused thought into channelled enterprise.
¶ Situated in, or surrounded by, a channel.
1795. Coleridge, Ode to Sara, vii. Dark reddening from the channelled Isle [note, The Holmes, on the Bristol Channel] The watchfire … Twinkles.
¶ Half channelled over = half seas over, half drunk.
1709. Hearne, Collect., 10 Nov. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), II. 304. One wd think he was halfe Channelled over.
