Definition of Dammed

1. Verb. (past of dam) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dammed

1. dam [v] - See also: dam

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dammed

damianas
damiaoite
daminozide
damlike
damma
dammable
dammar
dammar pine
dammar resin
dammara
dammarane
dammaras
dammars
dammas
damme
dammed (current term)
dammer
dammers
damming
dammit
dammit to hell
dammits
damn
damn Yankee
damn all
damn and blast
damn it
damn skippy
damn straight

Literary usage of Dammed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"Different kinds of lakes—Lakes occupying depressions in drift—Lakes dammed by moraines and older drift deposits—Lakes lying in roek-bound ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"Ice-dammed lakr- mi tlic margin of the Cornell tongue of the inland- ice (after Tarr). Ì H lia in one of the marginal ..."

3. The Canadian War of 1812 by Charles Prestwood Lucas (1906)
"This canal was cleared and deepened, and extended right up to the bank of the river; and, the boats having been dragged into it, the canal was dammed behind ..."

4. A Manual of Elementary Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"... with bones of quadrupeds —River dammed up by lava-current—Range of minor cones from ... dammed ..."

5. Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1836)
"... and dammed up by gaping creditors." A friend of mine, a young man, having been arrested in August, 1815, for a debt, and carried to a spunging-house in ..."

6. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1918)
"0 Municipalities are liable equally with individuals.1 Pond?, pools, and dammed waters may constitute, likewise, the foundation of legal liability on the ..."

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