shadoof
Sign in to saveAlso known as shaduf, swape, sweep, well sweep, well crane
thumb|Well pole in central Anatolia, Turkey A shadoof or shaduf, well pole, well sweep, sweep, swape, or simply a lift is a tool that is used to lift water from a well or another water source onto land or into another waterway or basin. It is highly efficient, and has been known since 3000 BCE.
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- Shadoofs
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|Well pole in central Anatolia, Turkey A shadoof or shaduf, well pole, well sweep, sweep, swape, or simply a lift is a tool that is used to lift water from a well or another water source onto land or into another waterway or basin. It is highly efficient, and has been known since 3000 BCE.
The mechanism of a shadoof comprises a long counterbalanced pole on a pivot, with a bucket attached to the end of it. It is generally used in a crop irrigation system using basins, dikes, ditches, walls, canals, and similar waterways.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “shadoof” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.