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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dam built to store a head of water for driving logs.
Examples
“Another device resorted to where the supply of water is insufficient is the _splash-dam_, Fig. 20.”
“The late Bill Wright was the greatest logger and splash-dam man in the mountains of Kentucky.”
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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Dam
List of words pertaining to dams and other means of impounding and directing water; their names, parts, pieces, passageways.
gage-weir, rafter-dam, bear-trap dam, tripsill, splash-dam, flood-dam, flooding-dam, sluiceway, spillway, millrace, headrace, sluice-valve and 38 more...
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