Usually means: Overflow channel for excess water.
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  8. wasteweir: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  10. Wasteweir: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. wasteweir: FreeDictionary.org
  12. wasteweir: Mnemonic Dictionary
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▸ noun:  A weir that allows the escape of excess water from a canal or reservoir

Similar:
spillway, spill, lock-weir, weir, wear, weirplate, by-wash, headworks, fallway, byewash, more...

Opposite:
inlet, intake, dam, reservoir, retention basin

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Similar:
spillway, spill, lock-weir, weir, wear, weirplate, by-wash, headworks, fallway, byewash, more...

Opposite:
inlet, intake, dam, reservoir, retention basin



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