The "shadoof" of today is the same in form as that used by the ancient Egyptians. ❋ Andrew Carnegie (1877)
After it gushes from the fountain in the temple precinct, the water is lifted by shadoof, water wheels, to the gardens of the palace, or sent by canals to every quarter of the city. ' ❋ Smith, Wilbur (2001)
It was based pn the same principle as the shadoof water buckets. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)
Our boat sped close in beside the papyrus beds; near enough for the creaking of the water buckets of the shadoof, on their long, counter-balanced arms, to carry from the fields across the water. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)
At the jetty I set up a shadoof to lift from the river a constant flow of water that I led through ceramic pipes to our own water-garden with lily-ponds dnd fish-pools. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)
Counterpoise lift (shadoof) · With a rope and bucket lift ❋ Unknown (1976)
The usual contrivance for raising water from the Nile for watering the crops was the _shadoof_, or pole and bucket, so common still in Egypt, and even the water-wheel appears to have been employed in more recent times. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The _shadoof_, or water-hoist, is patiently worked as it has been for thousands of years; while the cylindrical hoist employed in Lower Egypt was invented and introduced in ❋ Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (N/A)
In a recent London play dealing with ancient Egypt, the actor-manager exerted his historic imagination, in one scene, in so far as to introduce a _shadoof_ or water-hoist, which was worked as a naturalistic side-action to the main incident. ❋ Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (N/A)
"I shall throw away my lordly trappings," he said, "and become a lifter of the shadoof [1] this day." ❋ Elizabeth Miller (N/A)
One of the most common sights along the Nile is the shadoof. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The mode of irrigation adopted by the ancient Egyptians was exceedingly simple, being merely the _shadoof_, or pole and bucket of the present day; and, in many instances, men were employed to carry the water in pails, suspended by a wooden yoke they bore upon their shoulders. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The brown children of the Nile, the toilers who sing their antique songs by the shadoof and the sakieh, the dragomans, the smiling goblin merchants, the Bedouins who lead your camel into the pale recesses of the dunes -- these will not trouble themselves about your deep desires, your perhaps yearning hunger of the heart and the imagination. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
The loud and vehement cry of the shadoof-man died away. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
Carved upon limestone and granite, now it seems engraven also on every Egyptian heart that beats not only with the movement of shadoof, or is not buried in the black soil fertilized by Hapi. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
Still the shadoof-man sings his ancient song, violent and pathetic, bold as the burning sun-rays. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
And the sakieh raises its wailing, wayward voice and sings to the shadoof; and the shadoof sings to the sakieh; and the lifted water falls and flows away into the green wilderness of doura that, like ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)
They were the same people who played "coon can" and bridge on the deck at twilight, when moving figures on shore were etched in black on silver, or against flaming wings of sunset, and in gathering darkness the blue-robed shadoof-men who bent and rose against gold-brown dykes, were like Persian enamels done on copper. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Not one of us but thrilled to the droning cry of the shadoof men on the brown banks, as the dripping water jars went up and up, tier after tier above the river level. ❋ Unknown (1889)
+ A method very common in both ancient and modern Egypt is the shadoof, a simple contrivance consisting of a lever moving on ❋ Unknown (1884)
[mason]:dude i just forgot my car [keys]
[carl]:u just pulled a shadoof man ❋ Carl Zimm (2004)
Girl 1: Oh [shiiii].......[SHADOOF]
Girl 2: [bruh]. ❋ Hello Youll Never Guess Who I (2019)
Andrew shouted "Shadoof" when he got [the epic] [victory royal] with his friend [baldi]. ❋ Puppers360 (2018)
Will was out of toilet paper, [thank] [the lord] he pulled off a clean [shadoof]! ❋ JC Gillock IV (2020)
