noria

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun noria has 1 sense

noria(n = noun.artifact) - a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel;

CIDE DICTIONARY

noria, n. [Sp., from Ar. nā'.].

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. [1913 Webster]