Meaning of caneiro | Babel Free

Definitions

1. weir; dam on a river, for servicing a fishery or a mill
   masculine
2. drain in a wall
   masculine
3. gutter
   masculine
4. narrow pass
   masculine

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Examples

“os ditos juises e rejedores et procurador do dito conçello ordenaron e mandaron que persona nenhua non fesese caneyros des onde se junta ágoa da Baruaña ao muyño, fasta en todo o rio da Barbaña, so pena de los derribaran e os desfaseren et pagaren por cada vez que os fisesen sesenta mrs de pena”

the aforementioned judges and town councillors and the council's attorney decided and commanded that no person should build weirs from the place where the water of the river Barbaña hits the mill all along the Barbaña river, under the penalty of bringing them down, and destroying them, and paying a fine of sixty maravedis for each time

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