of this ancient technology. Shadoof or shaduf comes from the Arabic word شادوف, šādūf. It is also called a lift, well pole, well sweep, or simply a sweep...

Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad (2016-07-12). هز القحوف في شرح قصيد ابي شادوف: Volume Two. NYU Press. p. 487. ISBN 978-1-4798-3890-5. Everett-Heath, John...

the Fremen housekeeper, the Shadout Mapes, is borrowed from the Arabic: شادوف, romanized: šādūf, the Egyptian term for a device used to raise water. In...