Artificial lake impounded using a dam or lock to store water.
1The Tigris pours into the Mosul Dam Lake.
2A frozen dammed lake is 10% less likely to be crossed than a natural lake.
3Basically a dammed lake is like a giant battery, storing water to use when electricity is needed.
4The overflow of the glacier dammed lakes at the head of the dale came down Newton Dale and poured into Lake Pickering.
5This year the rains failed, too, and a new Turkish dam threatens to reduce flows from the Tigris River into the Mosul Dam Lake.
6They used so-called bouncing bombs, designed by Barnes Wallis, which skimmed the surface of the dam lakes before sinking at the walls and exploding.
7And then 200,000 years ago, a catastrophic flood from an ice- dammed lake chopped off a bridge connecting Britain from the rest of mainland Europe.
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