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单词 picotah
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picotahn.

Brit. /pᵻˈkɒtə/, /pʌɪˈkɒtə/, U.S. /pəˈkɑdə/, /ˌpaɪˈkɑdə/
Forms: 1700s–1800s pacotah, 1800s pacota, 1800s pacottah, 1800s paecottah, 1800s picota, 1800s picottah, 1800s– picotah.
Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese picota.
Etymology: < Portuguese picota the handle of a ship's pump together with the post in which it works, pillory (on a ship) < pico (see pico n.) + -ota, augmentative suffix.
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).
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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).
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