How to pronounce dam in English

"A female parent; -- used of beasts especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother."

"A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts."

"A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp. a bank of earth or wall of any kind as of masonry or wood built across a water course to confine and keep back flowing water."

"A firebrick wall or a stone which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace."

"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."

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