1. dam - Noun
2. dam - Adjective
3. dam - Verb
4. dam - Interjection
A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
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.
A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
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.
To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
Source: Webster's dictionaryUndressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. Michael Chabon
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. Lydia Maria Child
My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts. Edna O'Brien
It is easier to dam a river than to stop the flow of gossip. Filipino Proverb
Can a burst dam be mended with toothpicks? Darkovan Proverb
Better to dam the brook than the creek. Swedish Proverb