head-gate

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

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

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 1927

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 1918

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 Caroline Lockhart 1916

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 Caroline Lockhart 1916

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 Caroline Lockhart 1916

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 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

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 Mary Hallock Foote 1892

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) Nathaniel Parker Willis 1875

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) Nathaniel Parker Willis 1875