shadoofn.
/ʃəˈduːf/, /ʃaˈduːf/, U.S. /ʃəˈduf/, /ʃɑˈduf/, /ʃæˈduf/ A contrivance used in the East for raising water for irrigation purposes, consisting of a rod or pole working upon a pivot, at one end of which is fastened a bucket and at the other a weight to serve as a counterpoise.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water
well bucket1477
flail?a1500
kettle-mill1570
scoop1580
water engine1611
chain-pumpa1618
cochlea1648
water-screw1648
engine1652
bucket-fountain1663
chain1682
noria1696
tub-engine1702
tub-gin1702
well-pole1727
screw engine1729
rag1747
rag pump1747
swape1773
picotah1780
water balance1800
ram1801
well sweep1818
shadoof1836
hydraulic belt1856
water carrier1875
bailer1883
trip-bucket1926
1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians II. i. 24 The most common of these machines is the sha′doo′f.
1837 J. G. Wilkinson Manners & Customs Anc. Egyptians (1841) I. ii. 53 The mode of irrigation was by the shadoof.
1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 440/1 The cotton plants [in Egypt] are watered periodically by means of Sakyiehs, Shadoufs, or water~wheels.
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 90/2 The shadoof or chadous of Egypt.
1904 H. Spencer Autobiogr. II. 338 The fellahs..work all day with their shadoofs, raising water to irrigate their lands.
1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Apr. 268/2 The sounds which run as an undercurrent beneath the activities of Egyptian life..are the creak of the water-wheel and of the shaduf.
1961 G. Clark World Prehist. v. 109 For any great extension of the fertile zone it was necessary to cut channels and lift the Nile waters into them by some such device as the schaduf.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 100/3 (caption) Villagers in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, using a shaduf to raise water from a stream into irrigation channels.
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