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

Now they stood again in the first hall, and, pointing to the Nilometer, Amram said, "Famine!"

From Historical Miniatures by Strindberg, August

All these things were regulated by the indications of the Nilometer.

From Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

The priests proclaimed how the flood stood on the Nilometer, and the husbandman made corresponding preparations for a scanty or an abundant harvest.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

He looked uneasily at the Nilometer, in which the water had sunk.

From Historical Miniatures by Strindberg, August