单词 | picotah |
释义 | picotahn. Now chiefly historical. In South India: a device for raising water consisting of a pivoted beam weighted at one end and with a bucket suspended from the other, operated by a person standing on the beam and using his or her weight to lower and raise the bucket; a shadoof, a sweep (sweep n. 24). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water well bucket1477 flail?a1500 kettle-mill1570 scoop1580 water engine1611 chain-pumpa1618 cochlea1648 water-screw1648 engine1652 bucket-fountain1663 chain1682 noria1696 tub-engine1702 tub-gin1702 well-pole1727 screw engine1729 rag1747 rag pump1747 swape1773 picotah1780 water balance1800 ram1801 well sweep1818 shadoof1836 hydraulic belt1856 water carrier1875 bailer1883 trip-bucket1926 1780 E. Irwin Series Adventures Voy. Red-sea ii. 178 We saw wells that were worked by pacotahs, as in India. 1807 F. Buchanan Journey from Madras I. 15 In one place I saw people employed in watering a rice field with the Yatam, or Pacota, as it is called by the English. 1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 91/2 Termed a paecottah or picota in Bengal. 1933 Science 29 Dec. 591/2 The picotah, on which a man or beast traveled on the tilting lever, made an advance on the shadoof where continuous operation was a need. 1991 A. C. Moulyn Mind–Body iii. 46 Age-old irrigation systems..for example, the Picotah, a kind of sweep in India for raising water from wells. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1780 |
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