canalled

Saykuh-NALD/kəˈnæld/

2 meanings of canalled

1
adjective
Having one or more canals; cut through or laced with artificial water channels.
The canalled fenlands were drained and farmed for centuries.
Planners admired how thoroughly canalled the trading port had become.
Similarchannelled
2
verb
Simple past and past participle of canal.
The Dutch canalled vast stretches of lowland to reclaim it from the sea.
By 1850 the company had canalled the entire river valley for barge traffic.
Note
Two quite different uses share this spelling. One is transitive and takes a place as its object: engineers canalled a valley, usually to drain it. The other is intransitive and means traveling by boat along a canal, so a party might have canalled through the countryside. One form serves as both past tense and past participle. Placed before a noun, the participle shades into the adjective 'having canals'.

canalled is a form of canal

canal, verb: To dig an artificial waterway through or to a place, especially in order to drain it. Full entry

Forms: canalcanals he/she/itcanalling -ing formcanalled past tense, past participle
Spelling: canal → canalled: double the l, add -ed
Sound: The ending sounds like /d/.

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