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
Usage examples for dam:
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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.