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Definition of Fishway
1. a device for enabling fish to pass around a dam [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishway
Literary usage of Fishway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society by American Fisheries Society (1913)
"At Wichita, Kan., a modified form of this fishway was put in over or rather around
a dam that was built across the little Arkansas. Mr. Wells, City Engineer ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"Section 1 requires the owner of any dam to construct, within a reasonable time,
and maintain, a suitable fishway across it. Section 2 declares a dam without ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"60 of the Acts of the General Assembly of this state for the year 1906, be, and
they are hereby, required to inspect such fishway so erected, and make their ..."
4. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1899)
"In the Case of the Essex Company, the corporation had built a fishway in its dam,
as required by the legislature, and to the satisfaction of the county ..."
5. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1872)
"... such fishway, filed a copy of the same in the office of the secretary of the
commonwealth, and required the defendants to build and complete a fishway ..."
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