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Definition of Channel tunnel
1. Noun. The railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel.
Definition of Channel tunnel
1. Proper noun. The man-made tunnel under the English Channel joining England and France. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Channel Tunnel
Literary usage of Channel tunnel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"THIS year the channel tunnel Company sought to obtain powers from Parliament ...
The channel tunnel Company had proposed to make a tunnel beginning in Dover ..."
2. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"channel tunnel.—The proposal to construct a tunnel under the bed of the English
channel between Great Britain and France is more than a century old. ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"About the same period the channel tunnel Company, which had amalgamated with the
... See Blue-book, Correspondente respecting the proposed channel tunnel, ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1908)
"... Bill—All-night Sitting—Fate of the channel tunnel—Reform of Parliamentary
Procedure—Imprisonment for Debt—London Rating—The Metric System—Irish Primary ..."
5. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"Meeting of channel tunnel Company 2 Feb. ; of submarine Continental railway
company 3 Feb. iS£j Experimental boring going on, April, 1881 ; 800 metres ..."
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