shaduf

It is the song of the "shaduf," and the "shaduf" is a primitive rigging, which has remained unchanged since times beyond all reckoning.

Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886

This was a far easier way of irrigating by hand than the traditional shaduf, a single bucket that had to be dipped into the river itself.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

This was a far easier way of irrigating by hand than the traditional shaduf, a single bucket that had to be dipped into the river itself.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The pi cottah, used primarily in India, is similar to the shaduf but is operated by two people, one of whom acts as a moving counter weight to eliminate much of the strenuous work of returning the water container against a stationary counter weight. 29 Although it can lift water 5-8 m (16-26 ft), its output is small, and it is used primarily to water small vegetable plots.

5. How plants live and grow 1991

The counterpoise lift, or shaduf, is a traditional method from the Middle East and East Asia consisting of a container (leather bag, metal bucket, lined basket) on one end of a pole with a counter weight on the other and a fulcrum in the middle.

5. How plants live and grow 1991

If water is being applied in containers, such as buckets or calabashes, either by hand or with a shaduf (section 12.7.1) or other mechanism, the volume of the container can be determined by pouring water from it into another container of known volume.

5. How plants live and grow 1991

For purposes of irrigation, water was raised from streams or pools by water-wheels, or by a shaduf, commonly used on the banks of the Nile to the present day.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

And, finally, the great labour of the watering: the traditional noria, turned by a little bull with bandaged eyes and, above all, the shaduf, worked by men whose naked bodies stream with the cold water.

Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886

In any case the human species, in course of deterioration through overstrain, would find amongst these singers of the shaduf and these labourers with the antiquated plough, brains unclouded by alcohol, and a whole reserve of tranquil beauty, of well-balanced physique, of vigour untainted by bestiality.

Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886

The olden style of irrigation was going on by means of the shaduf, worked by hand, the same as was done in the East four thousand years ago; while the very plow, rude and inefficient, which is used upon these plains to-day, is after the fashion belonging to the same period.

Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857