Is it possible for them to get through the weir from the bayou to the lake?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
What is the purpose of the concrete structure south of N Street called a weir?. From Wordnik.com. [JournalStar.com - News Articles] Reference
This is what engineers call a weir, a handy contrivance for measuring the flow of small streams. From Wordnik.com. [Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine] Reference
This measurement is obtained in several ways, among which probably the use of a weir is the simplest and most accurate, for small streams. From Wordnik.com. [Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine] Reference
Eventually he had built a kind of weir, all prickly with limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
I was saddened to learn that the Brownsville PUB board tabled action on the "weir" dam. From Wordnik.com. [Brownsville Herald :] Reference
Another kind of weir is formed on a still larger scale, generally beneath cataracts or waterfalls. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Bill, your description of how Brownsville would be revitalized if this "weir" was built is very realistic. From Wordnik.com. [Brownsville Herald :] Reference
At some little distance below the village, there is a weir which is considered a most formidable spot by the inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World] Reference
I am bringing all this up because I was convinced the "weir" would be important and I expected things to start happening. From Wordnik.com. [Brownsville Herald :] Reference
"it's as if there were some kind of weir under the water.". From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
A kind of weir made of reeds which in that country are very strong. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
And where the Eynsham weir-fall breaks out in rainbow spray. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
He pointed up the stream which came swirling from the weir. From Wordnik.com. [Littlebourne Lock] Reference
Down to the weir and back again to the same old tune -- nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Had the boat been carried over the weir you would have been drowned. From Wordnik.com. [Littlebourne Lock] Reference
First, we'll go to Hardy's weir and take in a lot of herring for bait. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
I went to bed in my great room over-looking the river and the weir, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Queen's Error] Reference
At noon they ran in alongside Hardy's weir on the eastern shore of the island. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The results are in close accord with those obtained from the weir measurements. From Wordnik.com. [The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170] Reference
Her boat was in the stream which led to the weir, but not yet fully caught by the current. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Christianized natives, the bamboo weir through which the water can pass but the fish can not. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
Exeter, before the weir was made ships had been able to sail up to the watergate of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
The weir had not been on the main stream, but they had come upon it in exploring a backwater. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Bot quhy dois sche not answer, for quhatt purpoise did sche bring in hir new bandis of men of weir?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
Her eyes grow dim, and there is a sound in her ears like the rush and roar of the weir down the river. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
To a great part of this class of values Long Island Sound stands like a weir emptying into the net of New York. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Sent on ahead as member of a billeting party, I had to cross the Omignon river by a single plank thrown across a weir. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
We are told also that there was a waste weir at one end seventy-five feet wide and ten feet below the comb or top of the dam. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
On our return we passed one of the worst self-accused sinners busily hauling in the cast catch from his weir along the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
Denis looked down, and could discern a few tree-tops waving and a single speck of brightness where the river ran across a weir. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
After she was in bed Juliet listened for a long while to the roar of the weir, wondering at what she thought must be distant thunder. From Wordnik.com. [Littlebourne Lock] Reference
"When they discovered that the boat was missing as well as the girl, they quite thought that both must have gone over the weir together.". From Wordnik.com. [Littlebourne Lock] Reference
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