Meanings of shaduf in English

A shaduf is a simple irrigation device used widely in the region.

A shaduf, worked by three sturdy women, handled the heaviest loads, its long arm lifting and moving the weight with relative ease.

And although the invention that Penre discovers in Meryra's tomb seems unlikely, it is the first recorded instance of a shaduf anywhere in Egypt.

It is the song of the "shaduf," and the "shaduf" is a primitive rigging, which has remained unchanged since times beyond all reckoning.

The shadufs follow one another sometimes as far as the eye can see.

Trio Sound is my interpretation of Shaduf by poet Ian Wedde.

All along the banks of the Nile this movement of the antennae of the shadufs is to be seen.

Rows of shadufs installed along the banks of the canals or streams provided for the irrigation of the lands.

Regarding the poem Shaduf, I don't recall how I found it, but perhaps it was in a volume of Ian Wedde's poems.

And then three "shadufs," one above the other, creak together, lowering and raising their great scarabaeus' horns to the rhythm of the same song.