cross-channel adjective 3cross channel noun 2forms 1 adjective3 •That travels across a channel of water; relating to somewhere on the opposite side of the channel •(UK) Relating to the English Channel; to, from, or on the Continent; involving both Britain and the Continent, especially Francethe Gauls, who carried on the cross-channel trade between Gaul and Britain, were the inhabitants of the northern coast. — 1858 •(Ireland) Relating to the body of water between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland (the Irish Sea, Saint George's Channel, and the North Channel); to, from, or in the other of the two islandsEffect on the Revenue by the alteration of the Cross Channel Trade: The Acts of last Session of Parliament in regard to the removal of foreign goods between Great Britain and Ireland... — 1825 cross channel noun2 •A minor channel connecting two larger channels running parallel to each otherthe Sulina, which runs on from the Danube in an eastern direction, forming, with the Kilia and a cross channel between the two arms, the deltoid islands of Lete and Chatel or Tchetal — 1866 •A cross- current formscross channels
