shadoof
noun
sha·doof shə-ˈdüf 
sha-
variants or less commonly shaduf
: a counterbalanced sweep used since ancient times especially in Egypt for raising water (as for irrigation)
Word History
Etymology
Arabic shādūf
First Known Use
1836, in the meaning defined above
- elastic curve
- elastic deformation
- elastic fiber
- elastic glue
- elastic hysteresis
- elastic limit
- elastic membrane
- elastic modulus
- elastic scattering
- elastic wave
- elastic web
- elastic webbing
- elastical
- elastically
- elasticated
- elasticates
- elasticating
- elasticise
- elasticised
- elasticises
- elasticising
- elasticities
- elasticity
- elasticized
- elasticizes