Noria

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Noria \No"ri*a\ (n[=o]"r[i^]*[.a]), n. [Sp., from Ar.
     n[=a]'[=u]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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  noria
       n : a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to
           raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel