1A dam or other barrier in a river, with an opening fitted with nets to catch fish.
（筑于河中用以捕鱼、开口处罩有鱼网的）鱼筑（或鱼梁、鱼栅）
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Also a Weir in a river formed for the trapping of fish was termed in Saxon times a kiddle or kettle.
A tenant of the manor had unlicensed oyster pits in the marsh and illegal kiddles in Roman river in 1506.
1.1An arrangement of fishing nets hung on stakes along the seashore to catch fish.
沿海滩挂在桩上的捕鱼网
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Royal officers had the perquisite to trap fish in kiddles, but poachers often raided the traps of fish, frequently destroying the kiddles in the process.
The former environments were characterised by the grazing of large sheep flocks, producing wool for export and for the local cloth industries of Kent and Essex, by salt-making and by fishing using large ‘kiddles’ or fish-traps.