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1A river, canal, or other route for travel by water.
‘the canal was a very successful commercial waterway’
‘It aims to expand uses of ancient waterways, to increase trade, travel and communication lines.’
‘He became my much valued travel companion, and together we explored the waterways to evangelise.’
‘Others traveled further north along the Mississippi waterway.’
‘The northern waterways were closed, the rivers and lakes being slowly choked by the encroaching winter ice.’
‘Houses in the settlement are accessed by boats which travel on the waterways and canals within the community.’
‘The waterway was extended when the Monklands Canal was joined to the Port Dundas basin in 1793, and the Union Canal at Camelon in 1822.’
‘Somehow I would have thought that cycling would be an activity that would fit in easily with the ambience of the canals and waterways.’
‘Hundreds of tonnes of soil were also removed to make a 300-metre road along the river bank, reducing the width of the waterway to just two metres at places.’
‘Finland's 60,000 lakes are linked by short rivers, sounds, or canals to form busy waterways.’
‘Some US forces were north of the Euphrates River, but most were stuck south of the waterway as engineers tried to build a pontoon bridge there.’
‘The canal boom revived the idea of a waterway between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge.’
‘Three thousand fish have been released into the River Tame in Stockport to restore life to a waterway devastated by a major pollution incident earlier this year.’
‘Manchester is already getting a new waterway linking the Ashton and Rochdale canals when the Cardroom estate is transformed into New Islington.’
‘Together they came up with the canal idea as the Leeds-Liverpool waterway runs through the village.’
‘Several of the country's largest waterways, including the Yellow River, run dry before reaching the sea.’
‘Restorers of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal want to expand their knowledge of the waterway's social history.’
‘The code will supply unrestricted access to the country's inland waterways, including all rivers, canals and lochs.’
‘The new waterway would connect the Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes with the Great Ouse River in Bedford.’
‘Locally the sluices and waterways from the flood plain to the river are in several cases clogged up.’
‘The town is near the Delaware and Hudson Canal, a commercial waterway that connected the two rivers.’
2A channel at the outer edge of a deck of a boat that allows water to run off.