Dam

Definition of dam:

part of speech: participle

Damming.

part of speech: noun

A bank or wall across a watercourse; any man- made contrivance to stop the flow of water or gas; a female parent of mammals; a sheet of rubber used by a dentist.

part of speech: verb

To keep back water by a bank or other obstruction:- pr. p. damming; pa. p. dammed.

part of speech: noun

An embankment to restrain water.

part of speech: verb

To restrain water by a bank, & c.

part of speech: noun

An obstruction to keep back water; a mother ( of brutes.).

part of speech: verb

To confine, or raise the level of, by a dam; restrain: usually with in or up.

part of speech: participle

Dammed.

part of speech: noun

A mother, applied to quadrupeds.

Usage examples for dam:

• There was a large pond above the fall, which was made by the dam "Jonas on a Farm in Winter", Jacob Abbott.

• What does one do in this dam place? "The Holiday Round", A. A. Milne.

• He was in such a hurry he wanted to marry me then and there at the hotel and go live up in the mountains in a cabin above the dam where he was at work. "Together", Robert Herrick (1868-1938).

• A dam in a river used to raise the water back of it. "A Child's Garden of Verses", Robert Louis Stevenson.