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What is a weir?

What is a weir? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
  2. A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
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Sometimes on an exceptionally high tide the water flows over the weir causing a tidal effect as far up as Kingston.
Follow the river upstream, ignoring another path to the left, and drop down to a weir and boardwalk by the river that leads to a track.
Through the extensive studies done in the area we know that raising the weir is the only way to go.
Follow the river upstream from the weir for about two hundred yards and you will come to a clearing.
A weir is a dam placed across a river to raise or divert the water, or a fence in a stream to catch or retain fish.
The half weir was constructed to keep a good head of water in the river between Richmond and the end of the tidal flow at Teddington weir.

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