Its stated aims were to purchase boats, canalise the river to make it navigable, and build warehouses and other infrastructure for commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did you know? Steamboats on Lake Chapala.] Reference

They canalise for their own security a torrent which, undisciplined, would serve but to destroy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance] Reference

Artists must canalise their emotion, they must concentrate their energies on some definite problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art] Reference

But most artists have got to canalise their emotion and concentrate their energies on some more definite and more maniable problem than that of making something that shall be aesthetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art] Reference

The importance of the first lessens as men learn to dig wells and to canalise springs; the two last, defence and communication, remain attached to river settlements to a much later date, and are apparent in all the history of the Thames.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historic Thames] Reference

Acting with the blessing of the Viceroy, Octavian Hume had sought to create an organisation which would canalise the protests of India's slowly growing educated classes into a moderate, responsible body prepared to engage in gentlemanly dialogue with India's English rulers. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defence of Marxism] Reference

"I canalise it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crome Yellow] Reference