dam : Idioms & Phrases

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aswan high dam

  • noun one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
    Aswan High Dam.
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battle of the chemin-des-dames

  • noun a battle in World War I (May 1918); the Germans tried to attack before the American numbers were too great to defeat; the tactical success of the Germans proved to be a strategic failure
    Soissons; battle of the Aisne; battle of Soissons-Reims.
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Coffer dam

  • . (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary.
Webster 1913

Dam plate

  • (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.
Webster 1913

dam up

  • verb obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
    dam.
    • dam the gorges of the Yangtse River
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Floating dam

  • . (a) An anchored dam. (b) A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock.
Webster 1913

Foster dam

  • one who takes the place of a mother; a nurse. Dryden.
Webster 1913

glen canyon dam

  • noun a large dam built in 1964 on the Colorado River in Arizona
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high dam

  • noun one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
    Aswan High Dam.
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hoover dam

  • noun a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada
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Rubber dam

  • (Dentistry), a shield of thin sheet rubber clasped around a tooth to exclude saliva from the tooth.
Webster 1913

tai dam

  • noun a branch of the Tai languages
    Black Tai.
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tinker's dam

  • noun something of little value
    tinker's damn; red cent; hoot; damn; darn; shucks; shit.
    • his promise is not worth a damn
    • not worth one red cent
    • not worth shucks
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To dam out

  • to keep out by means of a dam.
Webster 1913