A shadoof or shaduf is an irrigation tool that is used to lift water from a water source onto land or into another waterway or basin. It is highly efficient...

plants; wheat and probably other cereals were sown in the fields, and the shaduf was already employed for the purpose of irrigation. Plants were also grown...

expenditure of labor and time than the shaduf, which was the previous chief irrigation device in the kingdom. The shaduf relied on human energy but the saqiyah...

the assembling of heavy equipment. The first known crane machine was the shaduf, a water-lifting device that was invented in ancient Mesopotamia (modern...

qanat system from Persia, regional water-lifting devices such as the noria, shaduf and screwpump from Egypt, and the windmill from Islamic Afghanistan. Other...

less labour force and time than the Shaduf, which was the previous irrigation device in the Kingdom. The Shaduf relied on human energy while the saqiya...

al-quħūf bi šarħ qaṣīd ʾabī šadūf (Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded), is a humorous 17th-century Arabic literary text written by Yusuf...

kártis – long slender pole kìrkšnis 3 (4) – groin svìrtis (4, 3, 2) – lever; shaduf var̃žtas – screw var̃tai pl. – gate kar̃tas – time (instance or occurrence)...

Since the Meroe period, ox-powered water wheels, specifically saqiya, and shaduf were used in Nubia. Between 3200 BP and 1000 BP, various Central Saharan...

were irrigated by hand, or (from the late 18th Dynasty) by means of the shaduf. Model of Meketra's house and garden from his tomb at Thebes, which consists...