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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A series of artificial pools arranged like ascending steps, enabling migrating fish to swim upstream around a dam or other obstruction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as fishway.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A structure built on or around dams or locks to faciliate the migration of fish.

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  • noun a series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam

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  • Series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam.

    July 17, 2008

  • I saw one of these last month. All the fish were wearing tiny tool belts. Seems they were headed up to repair the fish roof.

    July 22, 2008