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ˈwater-head
1. The head or source of a stream; the land adjoining the source of a stream.
1567in 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 642/2 Ane new gift..of all and haill the four merk land and the half of the watter⁓heid. 1900Daily News 26 Jan. 3/1 We descended the hill, and, passing by the waterhead his father so loved in the old days of his carriage tours, we drove to the church. 1901Scotsman 16 Sept. 10/5 The men o' the waterheads surround Philógar in grim array.
2. = head n.1 17.
1856Olmsted Slave States 7 The celery trenches are arranged in concentric circles, the water-head being in the center. 1914Lond. Q. Rev. Oct. 227 Only about one-fifteenth of the total length of the dam, or 500 feet, will be exposed to the maximum water-head of 85 feet. |