Editing Shadoof (section)

{{short description|Irrigation tool}}
[[File:Well-Central Anatolia.JPG|thumb|Well pole in central [[Anatolia]], Turkey]]
A '''shadoof''' or '''shaduf''',<ref name="Fry">{{cite web |title=Performance Characteristics of the Shaduf: A Manual Water-Lifting Device |url=http://asae.frymulti.com/abstract.asp?aid=5769&t=2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711045938/http://asae.frymulti.com/abstract.asp?aid=5769&t=2 |archive-date=2011-07-11 |access-date=2012-04-03 |publisher=Asae.frymulti.com}}</ref> '''well pole''', '''well sweep''', '''sweep''',<ref name="Knight">Knight, Edward Henry. ''Knight's American mechanical dictionary''. Vol. 3. New York, Hurd and Houghton: Riverside Press, 1877. 2,468. Print.</ref> '''swape''',<ref name="Webster">{{cite web |title=Definition of "Swape" |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/swape |access-date=2007-04-25 |work=Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary |publisher=MICRA Inc.}}</ref> or simply a '''lift'''<ref name="Potts2"/> is a tool that is used to lift water from a [[well]] or another water source onto land or into another waterway or basin. It is highly efficient, and has been known since 3000 BCE.{{Ciation needed|reason=Contradicts rest of article|date=November 2024}}

The mechanism of a shadoof comprises a long counterbalanced pole on a [[Lever|pivot]], with a bucket attached to the end of it. It is generally used in a crop [[irrigation]] system using basins, dikes, ditches, walls, canals, and similar waterways.<ref name="Roberts">{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=John |title=The Penguin History of the World |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-1846144431 |editor=Allen Lane |author-link=John Roberts (historian)}}</ref>