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Gatun

[ gah-toon ]

noun

  1. a town in the N Canal Zone of Panama.
  2. a large dam near this town. 1½ miles (2 km) long.


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Example Sentences

At Gatun the eighty-five-foot lake level is obtained by a dam across the valley.

At Gatun ships pass from the sea to the lake level, and vice versa, by three locks in flight.

Where it was once believed that Gatun Dam would be the hardest task on the Isthmus it proved to be the easiest.

The surface of the water in this lake is normally 85 feet higher than the surface of the water seaward from Gatun and Miraflores.

As a matter of fact, Gatun Dam proved the happiest surprise of the whole waterway.

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