weir English

Meaning weir meaning

What does weir mean?

weir

— 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

Synonyms weir synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as weir?

weir English » English

dam

dike

embankment

dyke

fish trap

barrage

fish pond

bank

weir plate

weep hole

water gate

spillway

spill way

sluice gate

sluice

sinker

penstock

pen

overfall

lasher

fish weir

exhaust outlet

dam baffle

cut-off wall

bay

Examples weir examples

How do I use weir in a sentence?

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They're going to the weir.

The weir! I can't hear you.

Behind you. the weir!

Children live on icy Weir until they have reached a serviceable age.

I live alone on icey Weir.

No, I prefer the tranquility of Weir.

But since the bridge will be blocked by traffic the only possible way out is across the weir, which runs along by the side of the bridge.

Next to the barbed weir around the prosoner of war camp, wickmen are laying droons.

I will climb into the poop. You will then loft it over the other sod of the weir.

The poop will then be lofted in the air, swong over the weir and then dripped on the other sod.

This is where the barrage weir will be built over the next two years.

This island in the Danube is the first part of the dam which will keep the water back from the excavations for the barrage weir.

This photomontage shows a bird's eye view of the Vienna barrage weir.

I fear we've encountered a weir!

He's The Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson.

All children must live in the ice and forests of Weir until they have reached a serviceable age.

I live alone in the ice and forests of Weir, such is the life of a catchman.

No, I prefer the tranquility of the ice and forests of Weir.

His body had been found floating above the weir on the Lake Marmion Complex, Ontario.

What weir?

Where's the next weir?

Two-time Academy Award nominee, Martin Weir.

That's Martin Weir!

Doris, Murray's widow, hears about the Martin Weir thing, and because we didn't have a contract, she wants half a million for the script.

I want Martin Weir, I talk to Martin Weir, not his trainer's shrink.

Because he mentionned the weir, precisely.

I'm sending men to the weir.

We could go down by the weir.

We needn't go down by the weir.

Semyonov, we see elks at the cape, near the weir.

CAN I HELP YOU, MISS? YEAH, THERE'S, UM, AN EMERGENCY PHONE CALL FOR LINDSAY WEIR.

OF COURSE YOU CAN. YOU'RE LINDSAY WEIR. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING.

Is Weir allowed to shower with us?

Weir!

Weir, what are you doing?

Weir.

Anybody seen Weir?

Nice pecs, Weir.

SAM WEIR.