A barrier built to block the flow of water is called a dam. If you walk along a stream, you can see where beavers have built a dam out of mud and logs.
A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
Noun
female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
Noun
a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
Noun
a metric unit of length equal to ten meters
Verb
obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River"
n.
A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds;
sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
n.
A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
n.
A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of
earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water
course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
n.
A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the
hearth of a blast furnace.
v. t.
To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine
by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in
or up.
v. t.
To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
Dam
Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam.
The dam runs lowing up end down, Looking the way her harmless young one went.2.
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Dam
I'll have the current in this place dammed up.
A weight of earth that dams in the water.2.
The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards.
A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
Usage Examples
Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.
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Other Usage ExamplesWe don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
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