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- noun Primary gate or valve at aqueduct or other source that can be opened or closed to regulate the flow of water entering an irrigation system (of lesser gated canals and irrigation ditches).
- noun A moveable
framework designed to holdstill theheads ofcattle for various procedures
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Examples
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At about the same time, a call may have been put in to the longwall headgate controls, where someone removed power from the longwall and at the same time disconnected the water sprays.
Ellen Smith: Coal Dust Propagated Upper Big Branch Explosion: MSHA Ellen Smith 2011
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At about the same time, a call may have been put in to the longwall headgate controls, where someone removed power from the longwall and at the same time disconnected the water sprays.
Ellen Smith: Coal Dust Propagated Upper Big Branch Explosion: MSHA Ellen Smith 2011
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Randolph devised a more elaborate plan involving a new headgate of concrete and steel at Pilot Knob and a second wooden gate near Disaster Island.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Randolph devised a more elaborate plan involving a new headgate of concrete and steel at Pilot Knob and a second wooden gate near Disaster Island.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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His task was to seal off the main canal with the iron headgate and a stone levee, forcing the river south into the bypass at Disaster Island.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Some of the blame surely belonged to Chaffey himself, for he had installed the Pilot Knob headgate improperly: it sat so high above the channel floor that in the winter, the water level fell too low to pass over its sill.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The agency said it still has to clear water from headgate 22.
Ellen Smith: Officials Find Signs of Excessive Coal Dust in Mine That Exploded 2010
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His task was to seal off the main canal with the iron headgate and a stone levee, forcing the river south into the bypass at Disaster Island.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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It has found five detectors from headgate 22, two from the headgate of the longwall, one from the longwall face, three on the mantrip where some of the miners bodies had been found.
Ellen Smith: Officials Find Signs of Excessive Coal Dust in Mine That Exploded 2010
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On May 14, he opened the wooden headgate he had installed at the diversion point, and for the very first time Colorado River water flowed through a man-made channel into the Imperial Valley.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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