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A water-raising device of great antiquity used in Bengal for land irrigation. It is a trough counterweighted by an extended arm and balanced across a bar. As the trough end descends it dips water, and, as it rises, the water runs towards the axis of vibration and escapes at a lateral orifice into a trough, which conducts it to the field. See gutter for a common device on this principle, excepting the counterweights. See also bail-scoop.

1877.

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