Meaning

A dam that lies to the rear of something..

Definitions by Sense

1. A dam that lies to the rear of something.
2. (Guyana) A region of rural, undeveloped land, especially on the outskirts of a farm.

Example Sentences

Two side dams are likewise thrown up, and extend as far as the cultivation, where they join a back dam; so that an estate is a complete island within itself, and dammed on all sides.

[...] I, by these presents, sell, alienate, and in feu-farm dispone from me, my heirs and successors, to and in favour of James Boog, [...] that small piece of ground at Canonmills, on which eight lime pits are built, lying betwixt the foredam and the backdam, on a narrow point, [...]

Back[-]dams had been built to allow of the utmost time being spent by the men in the foundations. When the sea receded from the dams the water was pumped out by steam power from a floating engine lying 120ft. from the rock, and the men were then able to work inside the dams until the water again overflowed.

During the excessively heavy rainy season of 1907 the Saramacca River rose so high that in many places it overflowed its banks and flooded the cacaofields, so that the trees were standing in water. On the estate Johanna Catharina on the right bank of the river, the backdam broke, so that bushwater came in; at „De Morgenster“ it oozed through the backdam.

The cane-fields of the one-time Plantation Vrymen's Erven extended from the canal edge far towards the east, and Savannah Road was a mere "dam". In fact, even to-day many still refer to it as the Backdam. In my boyhood days, it was always called the Backdam.

‘Back-dam’ and ‘sea-dam’ are the local names given to the shorter sides of the rectangle [i.e., a field]. The ‘back-dam’ is the dam away from the sea-coast, the ‘sea-dam’ is that which is nearest to it.

The purpose of these conduits, [...] is to limit consumption of storage volume in the reservoir by runoff from the watershed tributary to the reservoir or to remove runoff which will collect behind backdams proposed for the Tolay reservoirs. [...] [T]hese conduits, which will range in size from 7 feet by 8 feet to 10 feet by 12 feet will carry stormwater runoff from stormwater detention basins located at the backdams around the water surface area of the reservoir, and discharge to the stream channel below the main dam.

The cows are kept in stables erected in small yards, and are fed with concentrates and cut grass, obtained from the back[-]dams of estates.

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