head gate

Our supply could thus be regulated at the flume instead of going all the way up to the old head-gate for the purpose.

Then, the flume being ready, we two and Pedro went up and raised the stone head-gate three inches.

All of the drops, as well as the head-gate and flood weirs, were finished, standing as if hewn out of solid white stone.

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

That night, or rather in the early hours of the following morning, a horseman came spurring up to the Head Gate of Colchester.