“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.”

“Sometimes on an exceptionally high tide the water flows over the weir causing a tidal effect as far up as Kingston.”

“Factors ranging from pollution to water turbines, dams and weirs, for example, also account for the loss of eels.”

“In a canoe and out in the open air there is plenty of fun to be had shooting the weirs and riding the waves.”

“Evolving technologies have included aboriginal spears, nets, and weirs and European purse seines.”