Word: headworks
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: head
works
Definition: Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.
Morphemes:
Affix: head
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
Affix: work
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Something produced using the specified material or tool.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the word bearing the marker.