Weir: alternatives and connections

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks.

In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.

To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books.

A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive t…

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes…

To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.

To wear clothes.

Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.

To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong ac…

The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.

To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.

To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.