dam (n.)
- arrest
- backstop
- bank
- bar
- barrage
- barrier
- bind
- block
- blockade
- boom
- brake
- breakwater
- breastwork
- buffer
- bulkhead
- bulwark
- bung
- caulk
- check
- checkmate
- chink
- choke
- cistern
- clog
- cofferdam
- cork
- countercheck
- cover
- curb
- damp
- deadlock
- defense
- delay
- dike
- ditch
- earthwork
- embankment
- fence
- fill
- fishpond
- foul
- freeze
- gate
- groin
- halt
- intercept
- interrupt
- jam
- jetty
- lagoon
- laguna
- lake
- levee
- linn
- loch
- logjam
- lough
- ma
- mam
- mama
- mammy
- mater
- materfamilias
- matriarch
- mere
- milldam
- millpond
- moat
- mole
- mom
- mommy
- mother
- mound
- mummy
- nyanza
- pack
- parapet
- plash
- plug
- pond
- pool
- portcullis
- puddle
- rampart
- reservoir
- resist
- retard
- roadblock
- salina
- scotch
- seawall
- snub
- spile
- stalemate
- stall
- stay
- stem
- stench
- stepmother
- stop
- stopper
- stopple
- stuff
- sump
- tank
- tarn
- wall
- weir
- well
- work
dam (v.)
- arrest
- backstop
- bank
- bar
- barrage
- bind
- block
- blockade
- boom
- brake
- buffer
- bulwark
- bung
- caulk
- check
- checkmate
- chink
- choke
- clog
- congest
- constipate
- cork
- countercheck
- cover
- curb
- damp
- dampen
- delay
- detain
- dike
- ditch
- fence
- fill
- foul
- freeze
- gate
- groin
- halt
- hinder
- impede
- inhibit
- intercept
- interfere
- interrupt
- intervene
- jam
- lake
- lough
- meddle
- mother
- mound
- obstipate
- obstruct
- oppose
- pack
- plash
- plug
- pond
- pool
- puddle
- repress
- resist
- restrain
- retard
- scotch
- slacken
- snub
- stalemate
- stall
- stanch
- stay
- stem
- stop
- stopper
- stopple
- stuff
- suppress
- tank
- wall
- well
- work
dam (adv.)
dam (adj.)
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?
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.
