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

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Example Sentences

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noria

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 lifting buckets of the noria class, Figs.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 by Various

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

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

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 Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by William Bevan

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