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noria.

A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈnɔː.ɹɪə/UK/ˈnɔɹ.i.ə/US
  1. A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.

  2. Any mechanism using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.

Where this word comes from

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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