noria

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A water wheel with buckets attached to its rim, used to raise water from a stream, especially for transfer to an irrigation channel.

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A hydraulic machine of a kind used in Spain, Syria, Palestine, and other countries for raising water.

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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.

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

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Any machine using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.

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