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RESERVOIR |
Water dam |
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STANK |
A dam or mound to stop water. |
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BAY |
A bank or dam to keep back water. |
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ASTYLLEN |
A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit
or level. |
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APRON |
A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make
a gradual descent. |
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BY-WASH |
The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert
the flow of water. |
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TYMP |
A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the
archway in which the dam stands. |
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GATE |
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of
water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc. |
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SPILLWAY |
A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a
reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam. |
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MILLDAM |
A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the
water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel. |
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WEAR |
A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose
of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like. |
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DAM |
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. |