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Definition of Shadufs
1. shaduf [n] - See also: shaduf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shadufs
Literary usage of Shadufs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt and Its Betrayal: An Account of the Country During the Periods of by Elbert Eli Farman (1908)
"When the Nile is very low, it sometimes requires four or five shadufs, ...
The water is ordinarily raised this distance by the use of five shadufs, ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... or water-lifts (shadufs) worked by hand There are several thousand ...
or shadufs in Egypt. The fellah divides his land into little square plots by ..."
3. Around the World with Eyes Wide Open: The Wonders of the World Pictured by by Henry Allen Tupper (1898)
"Besides small specified wages the workers at the shadufs and water-wheels get a
certain percentage of the crop; those who do service on the boats share the ..."
4. Egypt (La Mort de Philæ) by Pierre Loti [pseud.] by Pierre Loti (1910)
"And then three " shadufs," one above the other ... All along the banks of the
Nile this movement of the antennae of the shadufs is to be seen. ..."
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