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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?"
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?
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