snye-dam

Lumbering, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a dam for holding water to be redirected through a snye (def. 1b).

See: snye(def. 1b)

Quotations

1827

. . . here [the river] is quite shallow, requiring all the water for the lock-chamber backed up from the snie-dam below.