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

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

From Historical Miniatures by Strindberg, August

This is the isle of Rodda, on the bank of which Moses was found, and where you may see the Nilometer.

From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Davis, Richard Harding

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 Baker, Samuel White, Sir

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