History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c32.s2.t9.31

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The device, *shadoof* or *swape*, though an offshoot from the evolution of bucket or pot, is only a semi-mechanized water-hoist worked not by any wheel but by a pair of vertical beams and a horizontal pole. Probably water was raised from wells by means of buckets tied by rope to one end of a long wooden pole, working about fulcrum near the other end that carried a heavy weight.