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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical, a drag.
- n. A plug of soft wood driven tightly into a hole at the joint of a scarf, the expansion of which, when immersed, prevents water from working up through the scarf and behind the bottom planking. In building iron ships a piece of canvas covered with red lead is used to make water-tight joints where calking is difficult.
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“Instead, all the dams and blockages and moats and stop-water gaps that were slapdashed together by the desperate engineers were dragged down, overwhelmed, and obliterated by the sheer force of the Colorado.”
Simon & Schuster: I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
“In large lakes and rivers, the beavers make no dams; they have water enough without putting themselves to that trouble; but in small creeks they dam up, and make a better stop-water than is done by the millers.”
“[Illustration: BEAVERS MAKING A DAM] "In large lakes and rivers the beavers make no dams, they have water enough without putting themselves to that trouble; but in small creeks they dam up, and make a better stop-water than is done by the millers.”
In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada
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