shadufとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

shaduf (plural shadufs)

1. Alternative spelling of shadoof.
   • 1983, Norman Mailer, “The Book of the Child”, in Ancient Evenings, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 120:

     Were there a thousand&—or was it five thousand slaves?—cranking the long poles of these shadufs to raise our water? I know as we looked from our boat across that hot shimmering river, I could hear shadufs creaking near and far, and the sun blazed like a sword each time water splashed into a higher sluice.