Meanings (ES + gloss)
aliviadero • compuerta • vertedero
An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
The weir must not represent a physical barrier to fish migration, both locally and throughout the whole river system. If necessary, a fishway is included in the weir.
Though Hambleden's parish register records the death, in 1753, of a bargeman 'Kill'd by accident, shooting ye lock', the turbulent waters of Mill End weir on the River Thames, abou…
corral de pesca • pesquera • represa pesquera
A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
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.
The weir catch of mackerel at Monomoy and along Cape Cod has been a failure.