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Little house on top of a dam (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hoover

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'a dam' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'little house on top' is the wordplay.
'little' suggests taking the first letters.
'top' becomes 'over' (I've seen this before).
The first letters of 'house on' is 'ho'.
'ho'+'over'='HOOVER'

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for hoover that I've seen before include "US president in House throughout" , "US president, 1929-33" , "Former president of US and vacuum cleaner" , "J Edgar . . . . . . was FBI chief" , "Vacuum-cleaner" .)

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