gracht

plural grachts

1. A canal in a city, with houses on each side.

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   Besides the grachts enumerated, there is an inner semicircular one, called the Cingel, the name usually given to the outer fosse; a much wider space, called the Binnen Amstel, receiving the first inlet of water from the river of that name; several capacious basons or docks; and at least a hundred smaller grachts, or canal-streets.

   1848, James Silk Buckingham, Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland, and Holland: An Autumnal Tour