shadoofs

Naturally, we had set up the traditional shadoofs on their long, counter-balanced arms to lift the water from the river.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

It was the time of low Nile when all the land is baked like a crust of bread, when the creaking of the shadoofs and the singing croak of the sakkia are heard the night long like untiring crickets with throats of frogs.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897

It was the time of low Nile when all the land is baked like a crust of bread, when the creaking of the shadoofs and the singing croak of the sakkia are heard the night long like untiring crickets with throats of frogs.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

It was the time of low Nile when all the land is baked like a crust of bread, when the creaking of the shadoofs and the singing croak of the sakkia are heard the night long like untiring crickets with throats of frogs.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

And aren't the sakkiyehs more interesting than the shadoofs, which they use mostly when the river is low?

It Happened in Egypt 1889

More temples, and many sakkeyehs (no shadoofs here, on the Upper Nile) but few boats.

It Happened in Egypt 1889

There were always shadoofs, where giant soup-ladles everlastingly dipped water and threw it out again, mounting up from level to level of the brown, dyke-like shore.

It Happened in Egypt 1889

It would be hard to beat these ancient Egyptian shadoofs by any device requiring human labor where the amount of water required is small.

Round the World Andrew Carnegie 1877

Perhaps the Canal Cavour, and other irrigating canals now proposed, may one day intercept as large a proportion of the supply of the lower Po as Egyptian dikes, canals, shadoofs, and steam-pumps do of that of the Nile.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical) 1874

When the bank is high, and the water has to be raised some distance, several shadoofs are employed.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873