head-gate

• “To remedy the defect a temporary canal was cut around the head-gate.”

  Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania

• “Opening the head-gate, he poised sharply upon its extremity and took off in a perfect swan-dive; floating unconcernedly down toward that boiling maelstrom two hundred feel below.”

  Spacehounds of IPC

• “I could drain the lake until the surface of the water gradually came down to the intake, when I could put in a concrete pier with an iron head-gate and regulate the flow.”

  The Long Chance

• “To pass the head-gate and the flume gave him an acute pang, while the high trestle which represented so much toil and sweat, hurt him like a stab.”

  The Man from the Bitter Roots

• “When the trestle was well along Bruce commenced sawing lumber for the half mile of flume which was to bring the water from the head-gate across the trestle to the pressure-box above the power-house.”

  The Man from the Bitter Roots

• “Nearly every head-gate the length of it had been the scene of a bloody battle where the ranchers fought each other with irrigating shovels for their rights.”

  The Fighting Shepherdess

• “So I threw the wheel out of gear, one night, and lifted the head-gate of the race full open, to flow a hard stream through and wash the tail-race deeper.”

  Gold Seekers of '49

• “It was the sodden fleece of the old ewe, which had been drifted against the head-gate and held there to her death.”

  In Exile and Other Stories

• “He was obliged to make a detour by the orchard, and come out at the "mill-head" below; -- a black, deep pool, with an ugly ripple setting across it to the "head-gate.”

  Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

• “It was the sodden fleece of the old ewe which had been drifted against the "head-gate," and held there to her death.”

  Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

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