Weir
[wɪə] or [wɪr]
Definition
(noun.) a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow.
(noun.) a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish.
Checker: Sigmund--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Wear
Editor: Stacy
Definition
n. a dam across a river: a fence of stakes set in a stream for catching fish.
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Examples
- The Weir's there, and you'll have to come back, you know. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Venn walked faster than Thomasin, and came to the weir alone. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Where else but in Plashwater Weir Mill Lock was there a man dressed according as described? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had fished again that day with better luck, and had carried his fish home to Plashwater Weir Mill Lock-house, in a bundle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Bradley rose early, and set out on foot for Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Where else but in Plashwater Weir Mill Lock was there a man as had had words with him coming through in his boat? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Somebody has fallen into the weir. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Plashwater Weir Mill Lock! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Plashwater Weir Mill Lock, T'otherest gov--er--nor--or--or--or! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In 1793 one was erected by Telford at Buildwas, and in the same year Burden completed an arch across the weir at Sunderland. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Weir, or Charlie, as he was known, at that time agent for the Adams Express Company, had the remarkable ability of taking messages and copying them twenty-five words behind the sender. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- BOOK THE FOURTH -- A TURNING Chapter 1 SETTING TRAPS Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Its origin was unmistakable--it was the fall of a body into the stream in the adjoining mead, apparently at a point near the weir. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Weir coolly asked for a pen, and when he sat down the sender was just one message ahead of him with date, address, and signature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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