head gate

Questions about head gate

What does head gate mean?

head gate means "regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for head gate?

Close synonyms include sluicegate, sluice valve, floodgate, penstock, water gate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is head gate a common word?

head gate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.