Meanings
nounfishweir (plural fishweirs)
plural fishweirs
- 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
Origin
- Old Englishfisċwēr
- Middle Englishfysshwere
- Englishfishweir
From Middle English fysshwere, from Old English fisċwēr; equivalent to fish + weir.
More words from Middle English, Old English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Turkish dalyan
- dalyanobstruction in tidal waters
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