Re: "Wife"
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 29, 2003, 0:21 |
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Tristan McLeay wrote:
> You will forgive me for taking offence at your comment, but the only
> senses of 'dam' (as a noun) I was familiar with till I read John Cowan's
> post, ignoring the homophone 'damn', are an artifical lake generally in
> a farm, an artificial lake caused by damming a river/creek, and the dam
> wall used to make the second sense of dam.
Interesting. For me, only the wall itself can be called a dam. The
body of water is an artificial lake, or a resevoir, and "an artificial
lake generally in a farm" would just be "an artificial lake".
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