“picottah”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

picottah

释义

‖ picotah, picottah|pɪˈkɒtə|
Also pa-, picota, paecottah.
[Hindī, etc., a. Pg. picota a pump-brake (in a ship).]
The name applied in parts of India to a device for raising water, consisting of a beam, resting on an upright support, which is weighted at one end and has a bucket suspended from the other; the operator stands upon it and uses his own weight to dip and raise the bucket; the same as the shadoof of the Nile.
1807F. Buchanan Journ. Mysore 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.1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts Ser. iv. 91/2 Termed a paecottah or picota in Bengal.

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