The canal was dug to bring water to the apple orchard.    From LearnThat.org. 

The alimentary canal.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

If, therefore, we suppose what we call a canal to be, not the canal proper, but the vegetation along its banks, the observed phenomena stand accounted for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mars] Reference

The visible decline in canal traffic has exacerbated their fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exodus] Reference

The canal is used as a sole means of transportation in this area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World in 34 Days] Reference

Partial atrioventricular canal is the less severe form of this heart defect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atrioventricular Canal Defects] Reference

Partial atrioventricular canal is also called atrioventricular septal defect, or AVSD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atrioventricular Canal Defects] Reference

Doppler effect in canal rays and of the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Physics 1919 - Presentation Speech] Reference

The next canal is short, and leads through a lovely wood into the little lake of Norbysee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visit to Iceland] Reference

It will be a 12-foot canal, a barge canal to be sure, but a barge canal is not to be despised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada's Canal Problem] Reference

Sometimes complete atrioventricular canal is diagnosed on a fetal ultrasound and/or echocardiogram.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atrioventricular Canal Defects] Reference

The bizarre surfacing of a German U-boat on the Leeds and Liverpool canal is the talk of the towpath.    From Wordnik.com.  [In search of the Lancashire U-boat commander] Reference

That particular route, however, crossing the hills to the railway and canal, is the worst in the county.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Hours] Reference

The James River canal is being repaired, and President Davis has called upon the farmers to aid in the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign and Colonial Intelligence] Reference

Well, the ear canal is so swollen that it is closed completely and the bone around the ear is red and swollen.    From Wordnik.com.  [29 « May « 2007 « Adventures in Juggling] Reference

A r2-foot canal is the best they can do, and that is what we have got to compete with; just that 12-foot canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada's Canal Problem] Reference

Since the discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays a great number of experiments on this phenomenon have taken place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johannes Stark - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Doppler effect in canal rays, which has given us an insight into the reality of the internal structure of atoms and molecules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Physics 1919 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Why is the separation called a canal and not an isthmus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where We Live A Home Geography] Reference

"The canal has been the prey of peanut politics too long.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Henchman] Reference

The canal is his master hobby, the poetry of his prosaic existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Henchman] Reference

At present they suffer terribly from a form of nostalgia known as canal-sickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916] Reference

The canal is the property of the United States, and we shall always retain control.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906] Reference

The canal was the site of the Confederate Powder Works and 19th-century textile mills.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

However, it cleanses only the lower part of the alimentary canal, that is to say, the colon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitality Supreme] Reference

From the map we figured the canal was a continuation of the one Schiaparelli called Ascanius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valley of Dreams] Reference

Jan, I think the canal was the 'Surrey canal,' and it did certainly run adjacent to Albany Road.    From Wordnik.com.  [London SE1 community website] Reference

The canal is the notion of the young king of Spain, and the work on it goes forward night and day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

Along the side of the canal was a staggering rude stone wall, fringed with bushes in strips and clumps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Merriwell Down South] Reference

On either side of the canal was a level stretch of country and near to the water no houses were to be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat] Reference

American side of the canal, which is to be the permanent line and is known in Zone parlance as the "relocation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers] Reference

The canal was another ill conceived and expensive way to get small numbers of boats into and out of the channel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Mail news round-up] Reference

They left the village, going east where the road leadeth along the canal, which is hidden by the sprouts of young trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

In the lands of the company it is 400 feet from the margin of the river, to which it is connected by a canal, which is over.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Electricity] Reference

After the taxi driver dropped us about a mile from the hostel, we had to trek along the canal, which is really beautiful and tranquil!.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference