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    Shadoof (redirect from Shaduf)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    the assembling of heavy equipment. The first known crane machine was the shaduf, a water-lifting device that was invented in ancient Mesopotamia (modern...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    qanat system from Persia, regional water-lifting devices such as the noria, shaduf and screwpump from Egypt, and the windmill from Islamic Afghanistan. Other...
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  • kártis – long slender pole kìrkšnis 3 (4) – groin svìrtis (4, 3, 2) – lever; shaduf var̃žtas – screw var̃tai pl. – gate kar̃tas – time (instance or occurrence)...
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    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...
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  • Yusuf al-Shirbini's Hazz al-Quhuf bi-Sharh Qasid Abi Shaduf (Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded), a 17th-century Egyptian text on Ottoman...
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  • 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...
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    evidence that agricultural devices such as watermills and waterwheels, shadufs, norias, sakias, water screws and water pumps were widely known and applied...
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    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...
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  • foreword by Sherman 'Abd al-Hakim Jackson Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, Volume One by Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī, edited and translated by Humphrey...
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    the demands of farming but in the more southernly parts (covering Mada) Shadufs were used to assist in irrigation. Oxen, donkeys, cattle and sheep were...
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    cedar wood poles found in the center of stone shafts indicate the use of shaduf to lift each block. It is therefore believed that the construction timeline...
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    the daliya; it was a waterwheel powered by human labor. The fourth, the shādūf, was a bucket operated by four people; it was in use in the area of the...
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    see: Book of Gates Funeral Procession The Garden of the Ramesseum with shaduf and pylon. Nedjemger and family offering to the King and Horus The tree-goddess...
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  • flood. Such usage continued in the early 2000s, along with the traditional shaduf (a device to raise water) and waterwheel to lift water to fields in local...
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    flood. Such usage continued in the early 2000s, along with the traditional shaduf (a device to raise water) and waterwheel to lift water to fields in local...
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    or collecting water from the Nile which had been raised to the bank by a shaduf. 1891 in art List of works by John Singer Sargent "Egyptians Raising Water...
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    responsibility for the attack. The suicide bomber was 20-year-old Nidal Shaduf, from a village near Jenin. After infiltrating Israel, he entered Binyamina...
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    established on the west on open arable ground, close to one well which has a Shaduf, or long pole with a weight for drawing up water. There is potters' clay...
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