Synonyms:
dam, dike, dyke
Meaning: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
dam, dam_up
Meaning: obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River"
Usage examples
She it was who had said "Heap dam dood."
"Dam' beasts hurt m'head," Naxa muttered.
Fourteen thousand horsepower would this dam furnish.
Outside, the rain poured down as if over some skyward dam.
Sometimes a great herd of buffaloes, massing together in the distance, seemed like a moveable dam.
The two Indians who had fired at me, and had killed my horse, were retreating across the creek on a beaver dam.
Across the mouth of this abandoned part of its channel the main glacier flows, forming a dam which gives rise to a lake.
Sometimes they are sent to make a bridge over Niagara Falls, or to build a dam across a mountain torrent in an hour's time.
Above, just out of sight, are moored a brace of steam pile-drivers engaged in strengthening the dam which unites us with Baker's Bottom.
I saw a squaw looking at you and saying 'heap dam dood,' so if you want to keep your station in society you've got to dance." Haskins was again worrying them.