chenal

Northwest

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See snye (def. 2).

See: chenail,snye(def. 2)

Quotations

1793

[The river] has changed its course back to what it was at the entrance of the Chenaux 5 Leagues below the Grand Calumet.

1896

We continued through the winding chanals (anglicized as "schnys"). . . .

1928

. . . the great western river had already received a considerable portion of the discharge of the Athabasca through the Chenal des Quatre Fourches.