Dam

Definition:

(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.

Compare dam with other words:

dam vs. embankment

dam vs. mordant

atlantic vs. dam

dam vs. penstock

barrage vs. dam

backwater vs. dam

dam vs. debacle

dam vs. fascine

dam vs. decametre

dam vs. draughts

dam vs. monetary

dam vs. obsolete

dam vs. reservoir

dam vs. prevent