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A Shadoof for drawing water from the Nile

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The term sakkieh is applied to all the apparatus for raising water, but the proper name for the Egyptian pole and bucket is shadoof. The shadoof is very ancient, as it is represented on the walls of the tombs constructed three or four thousand years ago.

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story Teller of the Desert--"Backsheesh!", by Thomas W. Knox Published in 1885
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