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Definition of Damming
1. dam [v] - See also: dam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damming
Literary usage of Damming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mining and Engineering: And Miner's Guide by Henry A. Gordon (1894)
"damming BACK WATER IN MINES. IN laying out extensive workings in large mines some
system should always be adopted so that if a large influx of water be met ..."
2. Irrigation and Drainage: Principles and Practice of Their Cultural Phases by Franklin Hiram King (1918)
"The diverting of water from rivers by tidal damming is only practicable where
the river carries a sufficient volume of fresh water to prevent the salt water ..."
3. The Law of Waters and Water Rights: International, National, State by Henry Philip Farnham (1904)
"damming back.—When the question of the right to dam back -urface water is reached
no rule can be formulated which will be ..."
4. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow (1913)
"John Pickering and Jonathan Pickering v. Capt. Walter Price, Mr. Henry Bartholmew
and John and Samll. Gardner, proprietors of the new mill. For damming up ..."
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