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noun

Wear, Weir n.

A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.

A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.

A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.

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"Weir" Quotes from Famous Books

... glass, etc., bricks for chimney and hinges for two doors. I think the business at St. John's may be advantageous, if not too much entangled with the other. We can work at burning Lime, catching fish in a large weir we have built for bass up the river at the place where we trade with the Indians, trade with the Soldiers and Inhabitants, etc. Next winter we can employ the oxen at sleding wood and lime stone, Mr. Middleton at making ...

— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond

... moments of swift and momentous decision. It is from something more immediate, some determination of blood to the head, some trick of the fancy, that the breach is stormed or the bold word spoken. I am sure a fellow shooting an ugly weir in a canoe has exactly as much thought about fame as most commanders going into battle; and yet the action, fall out how it will, is not one of those the muse delights to celebrate. Indeed it is difficult to see why the fellow does a thing so nameless and yet so formidable to look at, unless ...

— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson

... Weir, in THE MENACE OF THE POLICE, cites the case of Jim Flaherty, a criminal by passion, who, instead of being saved by society, is turned into a drunkard and a recidivist, with a ruined and poverty-stricken ...

— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman

... is not afraid. One day lately, when the water was low, he offered to cross the weir at Dingleford. I did not persuade him to that; but he pulled off his shoes and stockings, and got over ...

— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau

... available that it must surely take the place of all other books about Rome which are needed to help one to understand its story and its archaeology.... The book has for me a rare interest."—DR. S. WEIR MITCHELL ...

— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford

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