Clues for the word "DAM"
We've had 346 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1075 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on December 04, 2025.
Definition of dam
- n. - A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
- n. - A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
- n. - A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
- n. - A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
- v. t. - To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
- v. t. - To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
Referring Clues
- Hydroelectric project
- Broodmare
- Weir
- Beaver's work
- Beavers' project
- Beaver's project
- Water gate
- Horse's mother
- Fort Peck, for one
- Three Gorges project
- One that's holding back?
- Grand Coulee, e.g.
- Electricity source
- Obstruct
- Obstruction
- Public works project
- Coolidge or Roosevelt
- Farm female
- River regulator
- It's water resistant
- Fort Peck ___, in Montana
- Gatehouse site
- Hoover ___
- Farm mother
- Hoover, e.g.
- It may get into deep water
- Water holder
- River blocker
- Dental device
- Flow checker
- Reservoir's edge
- Lake former, perhaps
- Hydroelectric facility
- Grand Coulee or Aswan
- Grand Coulee, for one
- Block up
- Beaver's construction
- Leave it to beavers
- Block
- It holds water
- Hoover, for one
- Beaver's interjection?
- Foal's mother
- Water stopper
- Waterway barrier
- Floodgate
- Beaver's creation
- Aswan, e.g
- Hoover, notably
- Creek constrictor
- Barrier
- Flowage stopper
- Flood control project
- Bureau of Reclamation project
- Beaver construction
- Check the water
- Hoover or Roosevelt
- Hydroelectricity structure
- River blockage
- River stopper
- A river runs to it
- Water container?
- Go-with-the-flow thwarter
- It goes against the flow
- Beaver-built barricade
- Thoroughbred's mother, e.g.
- Trotter's mom
- Beaver work
- Beaver's blockade
- Fish ladder's spot
- Lake maker
- River barrier
- Power tool?
- Reservoir creator
- Keep from flowing
- Keep from running
- Beaver project
- Stop up
- Mate of 60-Down
- Sire's counterpart
- TVA project
- Thoroughbred's mother
- River sight
- Pedigree listing
- Structure with a spillway
- Beaver barrier
- Beaver building
- It checks the water
- Equine mother
- Hydroelectric power site
- A river runs to it?
- Beaver creek project
- Beaver job
- Dental guard
- Water holder?
- Sire's mate
- Hoover or Tarbela, e.g.
- Glen Canyon structure
- River obstacle
- Lake maker, perhaps
- Clog
- Aswan, for one
- Impede
- Hoover or Aswan
- Levee's big brother
- Obstruction for salmon
- China's Three Gorges project
- Roosevelt or Hoover
- Structure for hydroelectric power
- Stop from running
- Glen Canyon ___
- Spillway setting
- Hydroelectric structure
- Water barrier
- Stream obstruction
- Its water resistant
- Lake former
- It retains water
- Beaver's oeuvre
- Water container
- Beaver endeavor
- Dental ___
- Gardner or Mica, for instance
- Mica, for one
- Mica or Gardiner
- Gardiner or Mica
- Reservoir boundary
- Filly's mother
- Filly's mother
- Pond maker
- Check the water?
- Lake creator
- River tamer
- River tamer
- Beavers' construct
- Beavers' construction
- Beavers' structure
- Beavers' creation
- Reservoir maker
- River block
- Boulder, for one
- Mother among mammals
- Beaver's construct
- Water blocker
- Flow stopper
- Block the flow
- Flood preventer
- Flow blocker
- It'll hold water
- TVA structure
- River structure
- Flood control
- Irrigation project
- Engineering project
- Paddock parent
- Hydro-electric project
- Spill checker?
- Beaver creation
- See 88-Across
- Water holder-backer
- River project
- Beaver achievement
- Part of a horse's pedigree
- Beaver's structure
- Stream stopper
- Corps of Engineers project
- Aswan landmark
- Three Gorges, for one
- Three Gorges for one
- Aswan has one
- Current checker
- Flood control structure
- TVA creation
- The Gardiner, for one
- Aswan or Hoover
- Farm mom
- Certain blocker
- Certain water blocker
- Spillway spot
- Water checker?
- Beaver's brook blocker
- It can hold its water
- Hoover is one
- Flood-control project
- Alabama's Wilson ___
- Boulder, e.g.
- Gardner or Bennett structure
- Aswan structure
- Stop for water
- Block (up)
- Beaver's production
- Hoover
- Hoover construction
- China's Three Gorges ___
- Montana's Hungry Horse ___
- Word after Gardiner or Bennett
- Beaver's handiwork
- Luther van ___ on "Coach"
- Nevada/Arizona's Hoover ___
- Block, as stream
- Filly's mom
- Hoover's legacy
- Female parent of a lamb or a calf
- Flood controller
- Fish ladder site
- Hydropower structure
- Beaver's home
- Result of a beaver's hard work
- Water control project
- Beaver's barrier
- Channel changer?
- Challenge for salmon
- Glen Canyon, for one
- Grand Coulee ___
- What a beaver may build
- Beaver's pride
- Crazy about beastly mother
- You progress down some waterways and get to this barrier...which bursts and capsizes your boat. See 70-across.
- China's Three Gorges, for one
- Beaver's water barrier
- What a beaver constructs
- Grand Coulee or Aswan, e.g.
- System of a Down song that obstructs?
- Security gate?
- Happy Mondays "Kuff ___"
- Security gate for flood of fans?
- Woody Guthrie "Grand Coulee ___"
- Sugar "Hoover ___"
- Elastica "Mad Dog God ___"
- Toad the Wet Sprocket "___ Would Break"
- It obstructs a lady no end!
- Mother of Nostradamus?
- Barrier historically busted
- Mother - barrier
- Mare crossing a river?
- Hydroelectric power source
- Power provider with spillways
- Salmon ladder setting
- Fish ladder setting
- Hold back
- Oroville, Three Gorges or Aswan
- Water turbine setting
- Spillway site
- Livestock mother
- Provider of flower power?
- Datum on a horse's pedigree papers
- Flow obstruction
- Beaver-built barrier
- Barricade (stream)
- Block (river)
- Female parent of an animal, especially livestock
- Mother, foolish on reflection
- Stop the flow of
- Arizona's Glen Canyon, for one
- Fundamental part of a hydroelectric scheme
- Structure that may form a 55-Down
- Waterway blocker
- Feature of a millpond
- Current stopper
- Grand Coulee ___ (structure on the Columbia River)
- Structure with water turbines
- Feature of a moat
- Female parent in the animal world
- Beaver's output
- Thing beavers build
- Barrier on a waterway
- Fish ladder locale
- Barrier with a spillway
- Hydro plant locale
- Civil engineering project
- Block a river's flow
- Obstacle for a fish
- Reservoir structure
- Container of water?
- Put a stop to?
- River blockade
- A water blockage
- Sire’s mate
- The world's largest one is in Hubei, China
- Water blockade
- Something holding up the water supply?
- Beaver-built structure
- Mother's Day morning
- Beaver's building project
- Horse's female parent
- Power structure of a sort
- Female parent of an animal
- Obstacle for salmon
- Keep from streaming
- Hydroelectric ___
- Structure with a water turbine
- Part of a hydroelectric plant
- River-blocking structure
- Mother's barrier?
- No sire, it's across the river!
- Foal's mom
- Boulder or Aswan
- Hoover ___ (Colorado River structure)
- Lake Mead creator
- One may make a lake
- Water barrier Anna destroyed in "Frozen II"
- Locale for a salmon ladder
- Something to leave to beavers?
- Army Corps of Engineers project
- Pond barrier
- Branch structure blocking water
- Massive water barrier
- Structure that's 36-Down backwards
- Wall up
- Place for a fish ladder
- Place for a water turbine
- River diverter
- Mother of Nostradamus?
- Structure that stops salmon
- Water obstruction
- Reservoir barrier
- The tallest one in the U.S. is California's Oroville
- Three Gorges structure
- Xiluodu or Hoover
- Power project
- Structure that stops the flow of water
- Barrier in a hydroelectric power plant
- The Tarbela or the Hoover
- What the fish said when it swam into a concrete wall, per an old joke
- Water container?
- Reservoir producer
- Oroville structure
- Answer to the joke "What did the fish say when it swam into the wall?"
- Bad thing to burst
- Mare crossing a river?
- Salmon ladder spot
- Irrigation structure
- Structure built to generate hydroelectric power
- Dworshak structure
- Power generator
- Beaver's building
- Barrier built by beavers
- Answer to the joke "What did the beaver say after stubbing its toe?"
- Structure that's subject to hydrostatic pressure
- It holds a lot back
- Structure similar to a levee
- Structure in a hydroelectric power plant
- Prevent from running
- Beaver's build it
- Block, as a stream
- Leave it to beaver?
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - December 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 22, 2025
- LA Times - November 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 22, 2025
- LA Times - October 12, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 09, 2025
- LA Times - October 08, 2025
- LA Times - October 05, 2025
- Daily American - September 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 01, 2025
- Daily American - August 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 25, 2025
- Daily American - July 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 27, 2025
- LA Times - May 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 22, 2025
- Daily American - May 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 26, 2025
- New York Times - April 18, 2025
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