Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dam built to store a head of water for driving logs.
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Examples
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Another device resorted to where the supply of water is insufficient is the _splash-dam_, Fig. 20.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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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 1918
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