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splash dam

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noun

  1. a flood dam built to contain water that is released for driving logs.


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Usually the creeks were much too shallow to carry rafts of logs so he constructed a splash dam at a suitable point between the high banks of the stream.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

So now, on a bigger scale, he made a figure-four trap-trigger for his splash dam.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

A splash dam consisted of two square cribs of logs filled with great stones.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

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