noria

American  

[nawr-ee-uh, nohr-] / ˈnɔr i ə, ˈnoʊr- /

noun

1. a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.

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noria British  

/ ˈnɔːrɪə /

noun

1. a water wheel with buckets attached to its rim for raising water from a stream into irrigation canals: common in Spain and the Orient

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Etymology

Origin of noria

1785–95; < Spanish < Arabic nāʿūra

Example Sentences

Marshal Philippe Petain, then a general and in command at Verdun, organised a system that was dubbed the "noria" - or waterwheel - under which divisions from the whole of the French army were rotated through.

From BBC

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 Project Gutenberg

On 3 February, activists uploaded images of norias painted red to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the attack by security forces on the city, which is widely known as the "Hama massacre".

From BBC

The first morning one or two hundred Indians at work at the noria came up in a body to look at them.

From Project Gutenberg

They are irrigated by means of the native alakati, or noria, or more often by air-motors, which in this locality are much in vogue.

From Project Gutenberg