noria
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of noria
1785–95; < Spanish < Arabic nāʿūra
Example Sentences
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Leaving the Man at work, I crossed to where in the raised noria, a dozen yards beyond the white highroad, a blindfold mule was patiently at work.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
The first morning one or two hundred Indians at work at the noria came up in a body to look at them.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
That hauling machines of some complexity, Archimedian screws and a kind of noria, were used by the Romans for dewatering mines has been known for some time.
From Mine Pumping in Agricola's Time and Later by Robert P. Multhauf
And, finally, the great labour of the watering: the traditional noria, turned by a little bull with bandaged eyes and, above all, the shaduf, worked by men whose naked bodies stream with the cold water.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
The evening glow was on the hills when we left the watercourses and followed a track that led between fields of full-bearded rye dotted with blood-red poppies towards a picturesque white-walled noria.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
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