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Definition of Headgates
1. headgate [n] - See also: headgate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headgates
Literary usage of Headgates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"CHAPTER III MAIN headgates OR REGULATOR FOR CANAL SYSTEM Object and Location.—The
main object of this structure is to control and regulate the water supply ..."
2. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"Canal headgates.—Every canal should have one or more headgates so located that
the quantity of water admitted to the canal shall be at all times under ..."
3. Mills' Irrigation Manual for Lawyers, Irrigation Officers, Engineers and by Jared Warner Mills (1907)
"TAXING DITCHES, FLUMES AND headgates. § 166. Taxing Ditches as Property—Statutes
Exempting. The right to use water for any beneficial purpose, and the ditch ..."
4. Irrigated Lands of United States, Canada and Mexico by Charles Ryan Price, J. Clyde Power (1909)
"The land is the property of the Canadian Pacific Railway and is being sold
headgates at Main Intake: Alberta Project. ..."
5. Spanish, Commercial and Professional: Develops a New Field by Teodoro Santiago Romero (1916)
"... canal se construyen en su curso las "bocas de desagüe": For the control and
regulation of the water, headgates are built at the entrance of the canal; ..."
6. Revised Laws of Nevada: Containing State Statutes of a General Nature from by Nevada, James G. Sweeney, George Frederick Talbot, Frank Herbert Norcross (1912)
"Act requiring water users to install headgates and measuring weirs, approved
March 10. 1909, sections 4707-4709. Act to allow the running of water through ..."
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