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n. A navigable body of water, such as a river, channel, or canal.

n. A channel at the edge of a ship's deck to drain away water.

n. A body of water, such as a river, channel or canal, that can be navigated by boats or ships.

n. A conduit or watercourse, such as on the deck of a ship, to drain water.

n. Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.

Same as water course.

n. A channel or passage of water; a water-route; specifically, that part of a river, arm of the sea, or the like through which vessels enter or depart; the fairway.

n. In ship-building, a name given to the thick planks at the outside of the deck, worked over the ends of the beams, and fitting against the inside of the top-timbers, to which, as well as to the ends of the beams, they are bolted, thus forming an important binding.

n. a navigable body of water

n. a conduit through which water flows

"Situated at the big bay end of the waterway is the beach house where the television program, McHale's Navy, was filmed."

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