a body of water dammed up for irrigation, to supply a garden, etc
Word origin
[1560–70; water + head]This word is first recorded in the period 1560–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: clinch, cylinder, identity, sector, sympathy
Examples of 'waterhead' in a sentence
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Second, the unsaturated vacuum seepage equations are built up in conditions of flux boundary and waterhead boundary.
Feng Huang, Jianguo Lyu, Guihe Wang, Hongyan Liu 2017, 'One-Dimensional Vacuum Steady Seepage Model of Unsaturated Soil and Finite DifferenceSolution', Mathematical Problems in Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9589638. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)