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Definition of Sakias
1. sakia [n] - See also: sakia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sakias
Literary usage of Sakias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nile Notes of a Howadji by George William Curtis (1851)
"These endless sighing sakias! There are fifty thousand of them in Egypt, or were,
when Grandfather Mohammad was. They required a hundred and fifty thousand ..."
2. Nile Notes of a Howadji by George William Curtis (1852)
"These endless sighing sakias ! There are fifty thousand of them in Egypt, or
were, when Grandfather Mohammad was. They required a hundred and fifty thousand ..."
3. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1840)
"The heart of the trunk, which is black, is employed in wheel-making and sakias :
the white part of the trunk easily decays. " 2. ..."
4. Pumping Machinery: A Treatise on the History, Design, Construction and by Arthur Maurice Greene (1911)
"6), while according to Buckley, the term sakias is used for it in certain other
places. ... sakias. band or chain wheel for the support of the bucket chain. ..."
5. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"... in describing the plains of Dongola, once fertile, but then almost wild and
abandoned, thus explains the causes of the change:—'sakias are here taxed at ..."
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