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fishweirs

fishweirs is the plural of fishweir.

Meaning of fishweir

Noun

fishweir (plural fishweirs)

  1. An obstruction placed in tidal waters, or wholly or partially across a river, to trap fish or hinder their passage.
    • A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

Questions about fishweirs

What is fishweirs the plural of?
Fishweirs is the plural of fishweir.

Words near fishweirs in the dictionary

  1. Fishtar
  2. Fishtoft
  3. fishway
  4. fishways
  5. fishweir
  6. fishweirs
  7. fishwheel
  8. fishwheels
  9. fishwich
  10. fishwiches
  11. Fishwick

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