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

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 Bevan, William

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 Stephens, John L.

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 Baines, William Peter

The bean blossoms made sweet savour in our nostrils, and the gentle swish of falling water from the noria in an adjacent field gave a refreshing suggestion of coolness.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart

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 Boyd, Mary Stuart