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#1 2009-02-22 12:41:00

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

;damped up' for 'dammed up'

Dams keep out the damp. Examples:

It was established at the turn of the 70s and 80s by filling the swamped valley with the River Rudnica damped-up waters.
www.pila.pl/a_index_spacer_jeziora.php

Almost in the middle of the Bieszczady Mountains the damped-up waters of the San River and the Solinka River created two artificial lakes …
www.prospekt.solina.pl/en_wyspa.html

In a small natural dike closer the river Krka there is another small thermal spring but it hasn’t been damped up yet.
www.etrs.si/comenius/1projekt/Publicati … Waters.pdf

servants were huddled in segregation from their while employers—- and a damped-up pond, created by waste water pumped from one of …
www.pitzer.edu/new_african_movement/gen … 20Real.pdf

... and then the tresh river which did run by Baldwin’s Cross was damped up and made a street.
books.google.com/books?id=szUQAAAAYAAJ…

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