Hypertext Webster Gateway: "damming"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Dam \Dam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dammed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Damming}.]
1. 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.

I'll have the current in this place dammed up.
--Shak.

A weight of earth that dams in the water.
--Mortimer.

2. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt
behind, and cowards. --Shak.

{To dam out}, to keep out by means of a dam.

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