- a variation of shadoof.
shaduf
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It is the song of the "shaduf," and the "shaduf" is a primitive rigging, which has remained unchanged since times beyond all reckoning.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
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.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
There is hardly a shaduf to be seen and very little cultivation, it is either desert or stony hills on each side.
From Round the Wonderful World by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
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