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

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

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

From Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

From Old Cairo we crossed over to the Island of Roda, to see the Nilometer.

From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous

The moon-god Khons bears in his hands either a palm-branch or "the Nilometer."

From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy