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
The moon-god Khons bears in his hands either a palm-branch or "the Nilometer."
From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley
The steamer was so helplessly deserted by the water, that she would have served for a Nilometer upon which to mark the level, like the rock at Assouan.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
He looked uneasily at the Nilometer, in which the water had sunk.
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
This Nilometer is an ancient octagon pillar of red stone in the island of Rhoda, on the sides of which graduated scales are engraved.
From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon
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