(1.) The bed of the sea or of a river (Psalm 18:15; Isaiah 8:7).

(2.) The "chanelbone" (Job 31:22 marg.), properly "tube" or "shaft," an old term for the collar-bone.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

2. (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.

3. (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.

4. (n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.

5. (n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

6. (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.

7. (v. t.) To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.

8. (v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel.