weir

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /wɪə̯/    美 /wɪə̯/|/wɪɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
    — 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, about a mile from the village, still attract canoeists.
  2. 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.
  3. Seaweed. obsolete

词形变化

weirs plural wear alternative,dated wier alternative,archaic wyer alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Bridge of Weir Countess Wear leaky weir lock-weir Porlock Weir unweired wasteweir weired Weir Views

词源

From Middle English were, from Old English wer, from werian (“to dam up”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”); Cognate with Old Norse ver (“station for fishing”), Sanskrit वृणोति (vṛṇóti). Related to warranty.
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