the Erie Canal

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the Erie Canal [the Erie Canal] BrE NAmE
a US canal completed in 1825. It was built to connect Lake Erie with the ↑Hudson River, so that goods from New York City could be sent by water to the states in the ↑Midwest. The canal was 365 miles/585 kilometres long. The New York State Barge Canal replaced it in 1918 and goes along some of the old route.