Hypertext Webster Gateway: "noria"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Noria \No"ri*a\, n. [Sp., from Ar. n[=a]'?ra.]
A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against
its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by
which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in
Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian
wheel.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
noria
n : a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to
raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel
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