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shaduf

shaduf is the alternative spelling of shadoof.

Meaning of shadoof

Noun

shadoof (plural shadoofs)

  1. A device used since ancient times in the Middle East to raise water from a well or other low point, consisting of a pivoted rod with a bucket on one end and a counterweight on the other.
    • The waters intended for irrigating lands situated on the sides of the hills and at the bottom of a valley, are first raised to the top by a balance called deloo, or shadoof.1825, [Conrad] Malte-Brun, “Part I. A Physical Description of this Country.”, in Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, […], volume IV (Containing the Description of...

Forms of shaduf

pluralshadufs

Questions about shaduf

What is shaduf the alternative spelling of?
Shaduf is the alternative spelling of shadoof.

Words near shaduf in the dictionary

  1. Shadrick
  2. Shadricks
  3. shads
  4. shadscale
  5. shadscales
  6. shaduf
  7. shadufs
  8. Shadwell
  9. Shadwells
  10. Shadwick
  11. Shadwicks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shaduf (page history and authors); shadoof (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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