fishweir

English

Etymology

From Middle English fysshwere, from Old English fisċwēr; equivalent to fish +‎ weir.

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.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

Translations

obstruction in tidal waters

• Ottoman Turkish: طالیان (dalyan)
• Turkish: dalyan (tr)