Head Gate

Word HEAD GATE
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The word "head-gate" in example sentences

To remedy the defect a temporary canal was cut around the head-gate. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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." ❋ 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. ❋ Nathaniel Parker Willis (1875)

Hereupon a court of inquiry was instituted; and, leading the van, followed by the whole troop, out went my grand uncle to look at the head-gate. ❋ Unknown (1832)

Royalists hinder them, but let good part of Barkstead's own regiment enter the head-gate; but then sallying from St. Mary's with a choice body of foot on their left, and the horse rallying in the High St.eet, and charging them again in the front, they were driven back quite into the street of the suburb, and most of those that had so rashly entered were cut in pieces. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)

Royalists hinder them, but let good part of Barkstead’s own regiment enter the head-gate; but then sallying from St. Mary’s with a choice body of foot on their left, and the horse rallying in the High Street, and charging them again in the front, they were driven back quite into the street of the suburb, and most of those that had so rashly entered were cut in pieces. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"mill-head," a black, deep pool with an ugly ripple setting across it to the head-gate. ❋ Mary Hallock Foote (1892)

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