Dams is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DAMS in dictionary:

VERB:
• DAM, to build an embankment to retain water
• build a dam across (a river or lake)
• hold back or obstruct (something)
RESIDUAL:
• decametre(s).
NOUN:
• a barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, forming a reservoir used to generate electricity or as a water supply
• a barrier of branches in a stream, constructed by a beaver to provide a deep pool and a lodge.
• an artificial pond or reservoir where rain or spring water is collected for storage
• a rubber sheet used to keep saliva from the teeth during dental operations, or as a prophylactic device during cunnilingus and anilingus.
• the female parent of an animal, especially a domestic mammal.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to build a barrier to obstruct the flow of water

Words related to DAMS

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Words that contain DAMS

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How to use DAMS in a sentence

• Suppose it improved the river with necessary piers, dams, and all the rest of it, so that the driving would be easier.
• The construction of dams, in some form or other, may probably rank among the very earliest of engineering works.
• Allusion has been made to provision for scouring out sand and deposit, especially in the dams of Algeria and of Spain.
• They would appear at other dams, too far away, but never show themselves close enough to be injured.
• It is thus that these wonderful little creatures will often erect dams across wide rivers and effectually stop the rushing torrents.
• This he gained with some difficulty, after wading up to his waist through the mud and water of a number of beaver dams.
• The dams separating the several water-plats or ponds, are set in willow.
• When sustained largely on other foods, the change may be made without any check to the growth, even in the case of calves that suck their dams.
• In the case of sucking calves they should be allowed to take milk once a day for a time before being shut entirely away from the dams.
• Still less likely is it that they had been used as mining dams.
• They went far up into the mountains where the rivers rose snow-chilled and the beavers built their dams.
• He is, to be sure, desirous of improving them, but by peaceful means, by building dams and railroads for them, and by giving them schools and sending them missionaries.
• In such a case dams are not needed, and regulation beaver houses are rarely constructed.
• They are formed of numbers of poles, twigs, and small branches of trees, woven together and plastered with mud, in the same way that the dams are made.
• At this point are still seen the remains of two reservoirs or dams built of heavy masonry.
• The trail between these two dams lay almost wholly above the rocky river bed.
• It treats all the dams which intercept its current with a lenient benevolence, never having been known to carry one away.
• It was as much as England could do to dispatch enough troops to India in time to stop the flood from bursting all the dams.
• The calves are allowed to suck their dams at pleasure.
• From time to time while they are still with their dams they should be handled so that they may not be wild after they are separated.
• Through the broken dams the whole religion of Christ has been flowing out and it is mere empty pretence to claim that all that is of any value is left.
• A thousand of these fish, which measured about two feet and a half in length, came up the river, and a large quantity were retained by fixing dams across the stream.
• Thus four great dams have been built up forming barriers across the canyon.
• We found three beaver dams across the brook, one about fifty feet long, and another fully two hundred.
• But when he was about a week old his mother allowed him to accompany her to the river, where he met other calves and their dams.
• It is necessary, therefore, to build dams across them that will allow water to go down but prevent air from going up.
• Those industrious animals, the beavers, build their dams across the creeks in a very ingenious manner, with clay and brush-wood.

Similar words containing DAM without suffix s

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