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Definition of Noria
1. Noun. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel.
Definition of Noria
1. n. 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.
Definition of Noria
1. Noun. A water wheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water. ¹
2. Noun. Any machine using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Noria
1. a type of waterwheel [n -S] - See also: waterwheel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noria
Literary usage of Noria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico by John Russell Bartlett (1854)
"We made fourteen miles to-day, reaching La noria (The Draw-well) * at 2 o'clock ;
but it was necessary * noria is properly a wheel or engine for drawing ..."
2. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1858)
"THE CHAIN OF POTS—Its origin—Used in Joseph's well at Cairo—Numerous in Egypt—Attempt
01 Belzoni to supersede it and the noria—Chain of pots of the Romans, ..."
3. Elements of Technology: Taken Chiefly from a Course of Lectures Delivered at by Jacob Bigelow (1831)
"noria.—The machine used in Spain under the name of noria, ... A sufficient idea
of the form of the noria may be obtained by inspecting the figure of the ..."
4. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1857)
"noria with Poti—Suppe led origin of Toothed Wheels—Substitute for wheels and
pinions—Persian Wheel : Common in Syria—Large ones at Hamath—Various modes of ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... indissoluble engagements of Ho- noria were opposed to the claims of her Scythian
lover.(29) On the discovery of her connexion with the king of the Huns, ..."
6. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"A noria, or Well.—Municipal Elections.—The Democratic Principle.— Installation
of Alcaldes.—Illness of the Cura of Ticul.—Set out for Ticul. ..."
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