Nilometer
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Lanchester concludes that “words longer mean what they once did. It is not a process intended to deceive, but, like the Nilometer, it confines knowledge to a priesthood—the priesthood of people who can speak money.”
From Forbes • Aug. 7, 2014
If the Nilometer which measures the height of the flood indicates eight cubits, the crops will be scanty; but if it reaches fourteen cubits, there will be a plentiful harvest.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
All these things were regulated by the indications of the Nilometer.
From Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
Nilometer, nī-lom′e-tėr, n. a gauge for measuring the height of water in the river Nile: any river-gauge—also Nī′loscope.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
From the Nilometer we went to see the gardens belonging to Ibrahim Pacha; then to the spot where Moses is said to have been found by Pharaoh's daughter.
From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous