Barrier across a river designed to alter its flow characteristics.
An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
1 The general arrangement of a leap weir overflow is shown in Fig.
2 And we saw the water-tender open the lock and the weir sluices.
3 Down to the weir and back again to the same old tune-nothing
4 A 10-pound salmon was taken from a weir off Magnolia Thursday night.
5 But the tighter the weir became, the more the pressure was on it.
6 The results are in close accord with those obtained from the weir measurements.
7 Stafford rode up to the weir and looked at it critically.
8 Across the bed where we passed it was a native weir .
9 The weir so feared by the people, proved a mere toy for him.
10 It was mounted in a recess just short of the weir .
11 But the stream went singing onward, went singing by the weir -
12 Even a low weir can prevent a lamprey from migrating upriver to spawn.
13 The former is perfectly straight, and looked like a gigantic mill - weir .
14 Venn walked faster than Thomasin, and came to the weir alone.
15 Two Bakwains and I managed to get over by wading beside a fishing - weir .
16 Downstream it turned sharply down into a step - weir that dropped over three metres.
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