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Meanings of shadoof in inglés
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Examples for "shaduf"
Examples for "shaduf"
1
A shaduf is a simple irrigation device used widely in the region.
2
A shaduf, worked by three sturdy women, handled the heaviest loads, its long arm lifting and moving the weight with relative ease.
3
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.
4
It is the song of the "shaduf," and the "shaduf" is a primitive rigging, which has remained unchanged since times beyond all reckoning.
5
The shadufs follow one another sometimes as far as the eye can see.
1
Thot he'd adop a orfan and now hes swaped his girl fer a boy.
2
"It's the new broom as swapes clane," answered the head deckhand.
3
"Bedad," she said aloud, "to-morrer I'll clane thim lamp-chimbleys and swape the bidrooms."
4
"Why, don't you know, Patsy," replied his friend, "that it manes our party have made a clane swape of the cowld-wather men?"
Usage of shadoof in inglés
1
Still the shadoof-man sings his ancient song, violent and pathetic, bold as the burning sun-rays.
2
River, green plains, yellow plains, pink, brown, steel-grey, or pale-yellow mountains, wail of shadoof, wail of sakieh.
3
A shadoof, such as may be seen on the Nile, serves to draw water to irrigate the gardens.
4
The shadoof is used on small farms, and the sakieh is more often used for larger farms and plantations.
5
More temples, and many sakkeyehs (no shadoofs here, on the Upper Nile) but few boats.
6
And aren't the sakkiyehs more interesting than the shadoofs, which they use mostly when the river is low?