noria : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: noria	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for noria
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noria n a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Noria \No"ri*a\, n. [Sp., from Ar. n[be]'[?]ra.] A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.