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Hoover Dam

dam on the Colorado River, on the Ariz.-Nev. border: 726 ft (221 m) high

Etymology: after Pres. Herbert Herbert (Clark) Hoover

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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