See weir on Wiktionary
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H. L'Abée-Lund, J. E. Brittain, “Weir construction as environmental mitigation in Norwegian hydropower schemes”, in Hydropower '97, pages 51–54:", "text": "The weir must not represent a physical barrier to fish migration, both locally and throughout the whole river system. 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Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A fence placed across a river to catch fish." ], "id": "en-weir-en-noun-y0qtdzty", "links": [ [ "fence", "fence" ], [ "fish", "fish" ] ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "0 100 0", "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "jaz", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "яз" }, { "_dis1": "0 100 0", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "visweer" }, { "_dis1": "0 100 0", "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "word": "kalatõke" }, { "_dis1": "0 100 0", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "word": "kalapato" }, { "_dis1": "0 100 0", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "écrille" }, 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If necessary, a fishway is included in the weir.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Sathesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, page 303:", "text": "A walkway over the weir is likely to be useful for the removal of floating debris trapped by the weir, or for working staunches and sluices on it as the rate of flow changes.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream." ], "links": [ [ "adjustable", "adjustable" ], [ "dam", "dam" ], [ "river", "river" ], [ "regulate", "regulate" ], [ "flow", "flow" ], [ "water", "water" ], [ "downstream", "downstream" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1879, Annual Report of the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries, page 65:", "text": "The Taff is naturally a good salmon river, the Ely a sea trout river, but what with weirs and pollusions the fish have been pretty well exterminated.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1887, W. 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"feminine" ], "word": "visweer" }, { "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "word": "kalatõke" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "word": "kalapato" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "écrille" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "bordigue" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "caneiro" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "canal" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "Fischwehr" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "yanaryou", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "word": "梁漁" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "daljan", "sense": "fence to catch fish", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": 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