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noun 
  1. a device used to gather water, consisting of a pivoted pole with a bucket on the end of it
  • 1983: Were there a thousand " or was it five thousand slaves? " cranking the long poles of these shadufs to raise our water? " Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings
Etymology: Egyptian Arabic (ARchar, ÙÙ) shÄdÅf.


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