Noria

//ˈnɔɹ.i.ə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
  2. 2
    a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel wordnet
  3. 3
    Any mechanism using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.

    "The "Noria" pump is a bucket-and-chain arrangement, well known, I believe, in the Cape Colony as the "bakkies" pump; it is very effective for it lifts from 10 feet to 30 feet."

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water wheelwater wheel

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"This Noria will really go far away and her voice, warm and bewitching even further than her. Beyond the message of compassion and sympathy addressed to the Matoub family, ... it has surely already started to arouse vocations in our little girls and young boys choristers, why not?"

Etymology

From Spanish noria, from Arabic نَاعُورَة (nāʕūra), from Classical Syriac ܢܥܘܪܬܐ (nāʿōrtāʾ, “water wheel; growler”), from ܢܥܪ (nʿar, “to roar, growl, bray”).

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